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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... 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 . About the soundlessness of the funnel that twisted through and around their camp ...
... light in the middle of August , fifteen families moved out of Haven - headed not for Muskogee or California as some had , or Saint Louis , Houston , Langston or Chicago , but deeper into Oklahoma , as far as they could climb from the ...
... light could signal uninterrupted for mile upon mile in this country . When casing heads for fifty miles were invisible , a lit birthday cake could be spotted as soon as the match was struck . Half a mile from their destination fog ...
... , Mavis thought , would be critical . The trap would be agreed upon but maybe not laid yet . Her sharpest concentration would be needed to locate it before it sprung . At the first hint of gray light Mavis eased out 26 PARADISE.
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