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Original Essays | October 18, 2009

Victoria Hislop: IMG From Leprosy to Lorca — Strange Inspiration

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My first novel, The Island, was inspired by a chance visit to a tiny island leper colony off the coast of Greece on our summer holiday. It was a... Continue »
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The classic urban tale of a young black woman's struggle to raise her son alone amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of 1940s Harlem.
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ISBN:
9780395573808
Subtitle:
Volumes 1 & 2
Author:
Petry, Ann
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Co.
Location:
Boston :
Subject:
Mothers and sons
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Domestic fiction
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Harlem (New York, N.Y.) Fiction.
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Harlem
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African-American women
Copyright:
1946
Publication Date:
1991
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Pages:
435 p.
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