Ark of Bones and Other Stories
Author | : Henry Dumas |
Publisher | : Random House (NY) |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Henry Dumas |
Publisher | : Random House (NY) |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Henry Dumas |
Publisher | : Coffee House Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2021-05-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1566896134 |
African futurism, gothic romance, ghost story, parable, psychological thriller, inner-space fiction—Dumas’s stories form a vivid, expansive portrait of Black life in America. Henry Dumas’s fabulist fiction is a masterful synthesis of myth and religion, culture and nature, mask and identity, the present and the ancestral. From the Deep South to the simmering streets of Harlem, his characters embark on real, magical, and mythic quests. Humming with life, Dumas’s stories create a collage of mid-twentieth-century Black experiences, interweaving religious metaphor, African cosmologies, diasporic folklore, and America’s history of slavery and systemic racism.
Author | : Jeffrey B. Leak |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0820328707 |
The long-awaited biography of an unsung literary legend who informed the major 1960s cultural and political movements: Black Arts, Black Power, and Civil Rights. Leak offers a full examination of both Dumas's life and his creative development.
Author | : Ernest J. Gaines |
Publisher | : Bantam |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2012-10-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 030783025X |
“Grand, robust, a rich and big novel.”—Alice Walker, The New York Times Book Review “In [Jane Pittman], Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure. . . . Gaines’s novel brings to mind other great works: The Odyssey, for the way his heroine’s travels manage to summarize the American history of her race, and Huckleberry Finn, for the clarity of [Pittman’s] voice, for her rare capacity to sort through the mess of years and things to find the one true story of it all.”—Newsweek Miss Jane Pittman. She is one of the most unforgettable heroines in American fiction, a woman whose life has come to symbolize the struggle for freedom, dignity, and justice. Ernest J. Gaines’s now-classic novel—written as an autobiography—spans one hundred years of Miss Jane’s remarkable life, from her childhood as a slave on a Louisiana plantation to the Civil Rights era of the 1960s. It is a story of courage and survival, history, bigotry, and hope—as seen through the eyes of a woman who lived through it all. A historical tour de force, a triumph of fiction, Miss Jane’s eloquent narrative brings to life an important story of race in America—and stands as a landmark work for our time.
Author | : Stephen Baxter |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2010-05-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101187573 |
It's the year 2030. The oceans have risen rapidly, and soon the entire planet will be submerged. But the discovery of another life-sustaining planet light years away gives those who remain alive hope. Only a few will be able to make the journey-Holle Groundwater is one of the candidates. If she makes the cut, she will live. If not, she will be left to face a watery death...
Author | : Henry Dumas |
Publisher | : Random House (NY) |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Christelle Dabos |
Publisher | : Europa Editions |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 2018-09-25 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1609454847 |
“A stunningly atmospheric fantasy that doubles as an exceptional character study . . . we can’t wait to see where Dabos takes it next.” —Entertainment Weekly (“The 10 Best YA Books of 2018”) One of Publishers Weekly’s Best YA Books of the Year A National Indie Bestseller Lose yourself in the fantastic world of the arks and in the company of unforgettable characters in this French runaway hit, Christelle Dabos’ The Mirror Visitor quartet. Plain-spoken, headstrong Ophelia cares little about appearances. Her ability to read the past of objects is unmatched in all of Anima and, what’s more, she possesses the ability to travel through mirrors, a skill passed down to her from previous generations. Her idyllic life is disrupted, however, when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, a taciturn and influential member of a distant clan. Ophelia must leave all she knows behind and follow her fiancé to Citaceleste, the capital of a cold, icy ark known as the Pole, where danger lurks around every corner and nobody can be trusted. There, in the presence of her inscrutable future husband, Ophelia slowly realizes that she is a pawn in a political game that will have far-reaching ramifications not only for her but for her entire world. The World of the Arks Long ago, following a cataclysm called the Rupture, the world was shattered into many floating celestial islands, now known as arks. Over each, the spirit of an omnipotent and immortal ancestor abides. The inhabitants of these arks each possess a unique power. Ophelia, with her ability to read the pasts of objects, must navigate this fantastic, disjointed, perilous world using her trademark tenacity and quiet strength.
Author | : Tom Sniegoski |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 054514101X |
As the evil Nacht spreads his darkness across the valley, Tom and his friends, the Bone family, desperately try to find the Spark that will heal the Dreaming and save the world.
Author | : Christopher Krovatin |
Publisher | : Katherine Tegen Books |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2013-09-10 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780062077417 |
R.L. Stine, author of the bestselling Goosebumps series, raved that Gravediggers is “my kind of book—fast, frightening, and all too real!” During a class hiking trip, Ian, Kendra, and PJ get lost in the mountains and discover that they are being stalked by a pack of ravenous zombies. With the help of a witch doctor and some unusual folk magic, will they be able to defeat these monsters and escape the mountain with their lives? Author Christopher Krovatin perfectly blends humor and horror together in this first installment in a funny, frightening series that will get every kid reading.
Author | : Henry Dumas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
A free-lance writer, active in the area of "little magazine" writing and publishing, and a member of the teaching staff of the Experiment in Higher Education at Southern Illinois University in East St. Louis, Henry Dumas had amassed a considerable body of work at the time of his death in 1968at the age of thirty-four. These two volumes (Ark of Bones and Other Stories and Poetry for my People), comprise most of his work, published and unpublished. They amply show the sensitivity and skill with which he approached the themes of blackness and youth, the preoccupations of the stories, and, in the themes and techniques of the poems, demonstrate the awareness of what an African heritage can mean to an American writer.