PRESENTING ROSA GUY. by [Guy, Rosa] Norris, Jerrie.

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PRESENTING ROSA GUY.

Edition: First printing.

Boston: Twayne, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - A title in Twayne's United States Authors Series: Young Adult Authors, the first study of this author who was born in Trinidad and raised in Harlem. A "thoughtful study of the many influences that being black has had on Guy's work. Based in part on Norris's in-person interviews with Guy, the book sketchily discusses Guy's life, going more deeply into major cultural movements which threaded through it: the immigration experience of a West Indian family in Harlem in the 1930s and '40s, the Marcus Garvey movement, the Civil Rights movement, etc. [Includes an] in-depth analysis of Guy's books, especially The Friends trilogy. Chronology, frontispiece portrait, selected bibliography, index. [8], 110 pp. ISBN: 0-805782079.

Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

Book ID: 74540
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