Betsey Brown
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A lyrical coming-of-age novel. "The New York Times"
The pages go whoosh! "Kirkus Reviews on Sin City"
Shange is a superb storyteller who keeps her eye on what brings her characters together rather than what separates them . After you've read Betsey Brown to yourself, you can read it aloud to a friend. "The New York Times Book Review"
It's the truth Betsey Brown is a beautiful, beautiful piece of writing. "Houston Post"
Shange has re-created a humorous, charming, and heartbreaking vision of St. Louis and the Brown family that will delight young and old. She can conjure, as if by magic.... "Betsey Brown" is like an enchanting melody. "St. Louis Post-Dispatch"
Ntozake Shange is a unique and gifted, literary executant and works under strong impulses to do things her own way despite settled conventions of craft. The author's peculiar chemistry (a synonym for talent), plus her singlemindedness, has brought her a decided victory. She has made Betsey Brown live. We care about the child and wonder what will happen to her, how she will fare. This doubtless was the author's intention and mission. "Chicago Sun Times"
No contemporary writer has Shange's uncanny gift for immersing herself within the situations and points-of-view of so many different types of women. No wonder she has achieved an almost oracular status among her female readers. She is a writer of many masks. She can serenade you, and she can cut you; she can chirp, as well as growl; she can delight, as well as antagonize. "Ishmeal Reed"
"Betsey Brown "is a joy to read. Every sentence seems filled with a delicate, jubilant, sly, comical, musical brio. The energy, good humor, imagination and joie de vivre make this novella refreshing exception to most contemporary fiction. "Philip Lopate"
Ntozake Shange's writings compose one long, continuous song: by part blues medley, swaying gospel melody, plaintive torch ballad. "Washington Times""
A lyrical coming-of-age novel. The New York Times
The pages go whoosh! Kirkus Reviews on Sin City
Shange is a superb storyteller who keeps her eye on what brings her characters together rather than what separates them . After you've read Betsey Brown to yourself, you can read it aloud to a friend. The New York Times Book Review
It's the truth Betsey Brown is a beautiful, beautiful piece of writing. Houston Post
Shange has re-created a humorous, charming, and heartbreaking vision of St. Louis and the Brown family that will delight young and old. She can conjure, as if by magic.... Betsey Brown is like an enchanting melody. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Ntozake Shange is a unique and gifted, literary executant and works under strong impulses to do things her own way despite settled conventions of craft. The author's peculiar chemistry (a synonym for talent), plus her singlemindedness, has brought her a decided victory. She has made Betsey Brown live. We care about the child and wonder what will happen to her, how she will fare. This doubtless was the author's intention and mission. Chicago Sun Times
No contemporary writer has Shange's uncanny gift for immersing herself within the situations and points-of-view of so many different types of women. No wonder she has achieved an almost oracular status among her female readers. She is a writer of many masks. She can serenade you, and she can cut you; she can chirp, as well as growl; she can delight, as well as antagonize. Ishmeal Reed
Betsey Brown is a joy to read. Every sentence seems filled with a delicate, jubilant, sly, comical, musical brio. The energy, good humor, imagination and joie de vivre make this novella refreshing exception to most contemporary fiction. Philip Lopate
Ntozake Shange's writings compose one long, continuous song: by part blues medley, swaying gospel melody, plaintive torch ballad. Washington Times
""A lyrical coming-of-age novel." --The New York Times
"The pages go whoosh!" --Kirkus Reviews on Sin City
"Shange is a superb storyteller who keeps her eye on what brings her characters together rather than what separates them.... After you've read Betsey Brown to yourself, you can read it aloud to a friend." --The New York Times Book Review
"It's the truth Betsey Brown is a beautiful, beautiful piece of writing." --Houston Post
"Shange has re-created a humorous, charming, and heartbreaking vision of St. Louis and the Brown family that will delight young and old. She can conjure, as if by magic.... Betsey Brown is like an enchanting melody." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Ntozake Shange is a unique and gifted, literary executant and works under strong impulses to do things her own way despite settled conventions of craft. The author's peculiar chemistry (a synonym for talent), plus her singlemindedness, has brought her a decided victory. She has made Betsey Brown live. We care about the child and wonder what will happen to her, how she will fare. This doubtless was the author's intention and mission." --Chicago Sun Times
"No contemporary writer has Shange's uncanny gift for immersing herself within the situations and points-of-view of so many different types of women. No wonder she has achieved an almost oracular status among her female readers. She is a writer of many masks. She can serenade you, and she can cut you; she can chirp, as well as growl; she can delight, as well as antagonize." --Ishmeal Reed
"Betsey Brown is a joy to read. Every sentence seems filled with a delicate, jubilant, sly, comical, musical brio. The energy, good humor, imagination and joie de vivre make this novella refreshing exception to most contemporary fiction." --Philip Lopate
"Ntozake Shange's writings compose one long, continuous song: by part blues medley, swaying gospel melody, plaintive torch ballad." --Washington Times
NTOZAKE SHANGE is a renowned playwright, poet, and novelist. Her works includes Some Sing, Some Cry, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo and Liliane. Among her honors and awards are fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund and a Pushcart Prize. A graduate of Barnard and recipient of a Masters in American Studies from University of Southern California, she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. This is a unique and vividly told novel about a girl named Betsey Brown, an African American seventh-grader growing up in St. Louis, Missouri. While r endering a complete portrait of this girl, author Ntozake Shange also profi les her friends, her family, her home, her school, and her world. This worl d, though a work of fiction, is based closely and carefully on actual histo ry, specifically on the nationwide school desegregation events of the Civil Rights movement in America's recent past. As such, Betsey Brown is a histo rical novel that will speak to and broaden the perspectives of readers both familiar with and unaware of America's domestic affairs of 1950s and 1960s .Shange has set her story in the autumn of 1959, the year St. Louis started to desegregate its schools. In May of 1954, in its ruling on Brown vs. Boa rd of Education of Topeka-a verdict now seen by many as the origin of the C ivil Rights movement-the United States Supreme Court outlawed school segreg ation. The novel is firmly located in the wake of this landmark ruling; the plot of Shange's novel and the history of America's quest for integration during the Civil Rights era are fundamentally entwined. Thus textual refere nces abound to the watershed events at Little Rock's Central High School in the September of 1957, for example, and to "fire-bombings and burningcross es" in the South as well as "'battalions of police and crowds of crackers'" at a demonstration in St. Louis.Betsey is the oldest child in a large, rem arkable, and slightly eccentric African American family. Her father is a do ctor who wakes his children each morning with point-blank questions about A. Seller Inventory # RWARE0000066403
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Illustrated card cover with tan and white coloured titles to the front panel and black and pale yellow coloured titles to the backstrip "Betsy Brown is a black girl, aged thirteen, poised at the still point between the enchanted world of childhood and a passionate promises  romantic and political dash of the adult world. The time is 1957, the place is the black community of St Louis, and Betsy's private drama takes place against the cultural upheaval of the school integration programme and the Civil Rights movement."  from the rear panel blurb. Creasing to the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. There is light age toning of the textblock edges and pages. Black remainder stripe to the front textblock edge. First softcover edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 206, [8] pages. Previous bookseller's sticker to the rear panel. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; United States; ISBN: 0413578909. ISBN/EAN: 9780413578907. Inventory No: 0117955. Seller Inventory # 0117955
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