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A debut novel by the 1987 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. When a woman returns to her Midwestern hometown as an artist-in-residence to teach puppetry to schoolchildren, her homecoming also means dealing with memories of racism, rejected love — and truths about her family.
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Rita Dove, poet laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995, was born and raised in Akron, Ohio. She wrote the novel Through the Ivory Gate, as well as a collection of stories, a verse drama, a book of essays, and five books of poetry, among them Thomas and Beulah, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1987. The recipient of numerous literary fellowships and awards, she is the Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia and lives near Charlottesville with her husband, Fred Viebahn, and their daughter, Aviva.
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Returning to her Ohio hometown to work as "artist in residence" at a local school, puppeteer Virginia King is forced to confront her memories of her own childhood, racial bigotry, family, and growing up.
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- PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0679742409
- ISBN 13 9780679742401
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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