Life Lit by Some Large Vision: Selected Speeches and Writings (Signed)

Davis, Ossie, and Ruby Dee

ISBN 10: 0743289889 / ISBN 13: 9780743289887

Published by Atria, Signed, 2006

About this Item

Hardcover in dust jacket. Second printing. SIGNED, inscribed and dated by Davis's widow, actress Ruby Dee ("To Bill, with love") , who contributed notes and a foreword. Book and protected, unclipped dust jacket are As New, crisp and clean. Includes some photos. Free of any markings, not ex-library.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 253 pages; Signed by Contributor.

Seller Inventory # 72403

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Life Lit by Some Large Vision: Selected Speeches and Writings (Signed)
• Publisher: Atria, Signed
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0743289889
• ISBN 13: 9780743289887
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

A compilation of speeches, essays, and other writings by the late performer and civil rights activist includes such examples as a monologue from his 1961 play Purlie Victorious, his eulogies for Malcolm X and Louis Armstrong, and the speech "The English Language Is My Enemy." 30,000 first printing.

Review

"Ruby Dee's marvelous collection of speeches and writings captures the dignity, eloquence, and passion of Ossie Davis, who blessed us not only with great acting, but with a lifetime of fighting injustice. "Life Lit by Some Large Vision" will inspire everyone who wants to make a better world."

-- President William J. Clinton

"Ossie Davis is an authentic American hero. Through the pages of this book, I hear his rich, deep, melodious voice commanding us to continue to live, to learn, and to love."

-- Tavis Smiley

"This lovely and inspiring book is a final love letter from a devoted wife to an adored husband. It is also a great gift to all of us who continue to learn from their shining example of what it means to be fully, "passionately, " engaged in all that life has to offer. As we read his words, and hers, we are acutely aware that we are in the presence of greatness."

-- Pearl Cleage, author of "Baby Brother's Blues"

"Ossie Davis was the greatest artist/activist since the great Paul Robeson. Only Ruby Dee and Harry Belafonte today can be mentioned in the same breath! His courageous words are even more precious now that his life is our legacy!" -- Cornel West, author of "Democracy Matters"

"Ruby Dee produces for us the voice of her beloved, bringing an uncompromising truth, reminding us of the sound of a black man, bringing us, as he said, the 'scent of freedom.'"

-- Elaine Brown