A Way Out of No Way: Writings About Growing Up Black in America (Edge Books) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805045708 ISBN 13: 9780805045703

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, 1996

Synopsis

A collection of stories and poems about coming of age written by African American authors

About this title

About the Author

Jacqueline Woodson has won numerous awards for her novels, including Coretta Scott King Honors for From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun and I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

From the Inside Flap

inguished anthology of excerpts from some fine modern writing."
--The New York Times

In this very special anthology, Jacqueline Woodson shares the writings that inspired her as a young African-American growing up in Brooklyn. Within these pages you will find the quiet poignance of Toni Morrison's Sula, the joyous proclamations of Bernice Johnson Reagon's "I Remember, I Believe," the biting colloquial brilliance of Paul Beatty's Big Bowls of Cereal . . . and a host of other masterful works.

Filled with both poems and stories, A WAY OUT OF NO WAY is at once a deep and tender tribute to the delicacy of adolescence and a first-rate study of African-American literature.

ERNEST J. GAINES * JAMES BALDWIN * ROSA GUY * TONI CADE BAMBARA * TIM SEIBLES * PAUL BEATTY * JAMAICA KINCAID * NTOZAKE SHANGE * JUNE JORDAN * LANGSTON HUGHES * ANNA DEAVERE SMITH * TONI MORRISON * RANDALL KENAN * CLAUDE McKAY * NIKKI GIOVANNI * GWENDOLYN BROOKS * BERNICE JOHNSON

Edition details

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805045708
• ISBN 13: 9780805045703
• Binding: Hardcover
• Editor: Woodson Jacqueline