Brown Girl, Brownstones

by Paule Marshall

Overview

Hailed by the Saturday Review as "passionate" and "compelling" and by The New Yorker as "remarkable for its courage," this 1959 coming-of-age story centers on the daughter of Barbadian immigrants living in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II. A precursor to feminist literature, this novel was written by and about an African-American woman.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780486118604
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Publication date:	02/07/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	791 KB

About the Author

Paule Marshall is the recipient of numerous honors, including a John Dos Passos Award for Literature, an American Book Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship. She holds a distinguished chair in the creative writing program at New York University.

Table of Contents

Book 1. A Long Day and a Long NightBook 2. PastoraleBook 3. The WarBook 4. Selina

Editorial Reviews

Set in Depression-era Brooklyn, NY, this 1959 coming-of-age novel finds Selina Boyce caught in the middle of her immigrant parents. Mom wants Selina to get an American education, while dad dreams of returning to Barbados. Along with her parental woes, our heroine must deal with the poverty and racism that surrounds her. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

These people live and you go there with them through their woe and their joy. Here, ah, here is a book with characters in it. -- Esquire

Dorothy Parker

"Remarkable for its colorful characters, the cadence of its dialogue and its evocation of a still-lingering past." —The New York Times Book Review

"Marshall brings to her characters . . . an instinctive understanding, a generosity and free humor that combine to form a style remarkable for its courage, its color, and its natural control." —The New Yorker

"An unforgettable novel written with pride and anger, with rebellion and tears." —The New York Herald Tribune

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