Unveiling the Prophet

by Lucy Ferriss

Overview

Lucy Ferriss's memoir blends regional history, national history, and her own personal history to create a fast-paced narrative that follows two time lines. One is the dramatic and often funny story of her attending the exclusive Veiled Prophet Ball in 1972 at which a woman affiliated with ACTION, a militant civil rights group, swooped down onto the stage and knocked off the Veiled Prophet's hat and veil-and act that forever changed the Ball in St. Louis.The other story takes place thirty years later as Ferriss returns to St. Louis from her home on the East Coast to track down some of ACTION's principal activists as well as key figures in the Veiled Prophet Society. Over the course of the story, Ferriss undergoes her own unveiling, as she discusses and comes to terms with her family; the past, present, and future of St. Louis; and the cultural politics that frame young women's entrance into society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826264916
Publisher:	University of Missouri Press
Publication date:	10/06/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	168
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	14 Years

About the Author

Lucy Ferriss is Writer-in-Residence at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and the author of numerous books, including Leaving the Neighborhood and Other Stories and Nerves of the Heart: A Novel. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times and the winner of the Mid-List Press First Series Award, the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant.