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Pub. Date
[2012], c2010
Language
English
Description
It's raining as a man walks into a bar in the French Quarter and tells the story of a lady who wears a purple hat. The lady has taken a seat at the bar every evening for 30 years, always with an enthralled young man, never aging, and never dying, despite the fact that the man has seen her murdered by her companion - twice. Is the lady a ghost? What is the purpose of the syringe and vial concealed in her hat? And why does the young man now listening...
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Pub. Date
[2010], c1999
Language
English
Description
A wave of bold American writing from both white and black authors gave expression to Southern life during World War II and the years that followed. This program tells the story of that literary development up to the era of the Civil Rights movement. It presents the work of Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, Robert Penn Warren, Ralph Ellison, Lillian Smith, Flannery O'Connor, and others - as well as a revealing 1997 interview with Welty herself. An inventive...
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Language
English
Description
I have the strength to walk my own path, no matter how hard, in my search for reality, and not cling to the splendid wagon of desperate illusions. A writer of novels, short stories, folktales, plays, and essays, Zora Neale Hurston combined a hunger for research and a desire to penetrate the deepest of popular beliefs with a truly exquisite narrative talent. This illuminating biography of Hurston-a compelling story of a free spirit who achieved national...
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