Lorene Cary
1) Black ice
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1972 Lorene Cary, a bright, ambitious black teenager from Philadelphia, was transplanted into the formerly all-white, all-male environs of the elite St. Paul's School in New Hampshire, where she became a scholarship student in a "boot camp" for future American leaders. Like any good student, she was determined to succeed. But Cary was also determined to succeed without selling out. This wonderfully frank and perceptive memoir describes the perils...
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
318 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lorene Cary has been praised by the American Library Association for her honest style that brings African American history to life. Ginnie Pryor finally has the chance to escape slavery-but to do so, she must leave her youngest child behind. With her new found freedom come responsibilities and a new identity as abolitionist Mercer Gray. But she cannot forget her abandoned baby boy.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
254 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Shares the story of the author's relationship with her remarkable grandmother, describing the latter's youth in the Jim Crow South, devotion to black causes, and management of her own business until age one hundred.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
306 p. : geneal. table ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A woman who abandoned her son faces the prospect of a reunion, while a young single mother hopes for a commitment from her boyfriend and a young man searches for answers about his parentage.
Author
Publisher
N.A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Four black women help each other with problems. Widowed Arneatha, an Episcopalian minister longs for a man, Roz, recovering from cancer discovers her husband is unfaithful, Audrey is struggling with alcoholism, and academic Tamara didn't get her tenure.
