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Synopsis
Like James Baldwin, Langston Hughes and Billie Holiday, Eden leaves the American South nurturing a dream of finding artistic emancipation in the City of Light. Once in Paris, she experiments freely, inhabiting different incarnations - artist's model, poet's helper, au pair, teacher, thief, lover - to keep body and soul together, to discover her sexual self, and to give life to her dreams of becoming a writer.
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'Youngblood deals admirably with the symbolism of the city while letting her heroine, Eden, get on with her own journey. Angelou and Walker have laid the trail for this kind of feel-good odyssey but Youngblood gets you behind Eden all the way' Guardian; 'Youngblood is one of those incredibly gifted writers whose lyricism and conviction make her a must-read' New Nation; 'The handy "Rules for Living" and tips on au pairing ("Don't kill the dog") are comic standouts...' The Times; 'Shay Youngblood has a luminously poetic quality aligned with the power of the shape-shifter...mesmerising' Bonnie Greer
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Acclaim for Black Girl in Paris:
‘Shay Youngblood has a luminously poetic quality aligned with the power of the shape-shifter . . . mesmerising’ Bonnie Greer
‘Youngblood is one of those incredibly gifted writers whose lyricism and conviction make her a must-read’ New Nation
‘Daring . . . an engaging, unpredictable portrait of an artist as a young black girl’ Los Angeles Times
‘The handy "Rules for Living" and tips on au pairing ("Don’t kill the dog") are comic standouts . . . As an edgy portrait of an aspiring artist this deserves a place on the shelf’ The Times
‘Youngblood deals admirably with the symbolism of the city while letting her heroine, Eden, get on with her own journey. Angelou and Walker have laid the trail for this kind of feel-good odyssey but Youngblood gets you behind Eden all the way’ Guardian
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- PublisherThe Women's Press Ltd
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0704347148
- ISBN 13 9780704347144
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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Black Girl in Paris
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Condition: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut - Gepflegter, sauberer Zustand. | Seiten: 256 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher. Seller Inventory # 789337/2
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