ParadiseKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 24 lip 2007 - 320 The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation on race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present—in prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem. |
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... told , “ This here is Paradise but you can't come in . " I also noticed that the town leaders in the photographs were invariably light - skinned men . Was skin privilege also a feature of the separation ? One that replicated the white ...
... told them to mount or change roles . The men argued handicaps and placed quarter bets with abandon . When the gun went off only three horses leapt forward . The rest stepped sideways or cut out over lumber stacked near unfinished homes ...
... told to them by their grandfather - the man who put the words in the Oven's black mouth . A story that explained why neither the founders of Haven nor their descendants could tolerate anybody but themselves . On the journey from ...
... told and retold in dark barns , near the Oven at sunset , in the Sunday afternoon light of prayer meetings . About the saddles of the four black - skinned bandits who fed them dried buffalo meat before robbing them of their rifles ...
... told her she better not touch , let alone drive , the Cadillac as long as she lived . So she was as surprised as anybody when she stole it . " You all right ? " Frank was already under the sheet , and Mavis woke with a start of terror ...