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Some
of Her Friends That Year
Maxine Chernoff fans will relish the fifteen
new stories, and new readers will discover
a wonderful assemblage of Chernoff's likeable
and contemplative characters. With the precision
of a poet and the astuteness of a sociologist,
Chernoff continues to establish herself
as a master of the short story genre with
this excellent collection, which includes
stories from Bop and Signs of Devotion.
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Bird
at My Window
Rosa Guy's powerful novel follows a
young and brilliant black man who wakes in a mental
hospital and is told he has assaulted his sister.
Unable to
recall the circumstances that brought him to commit
this
unthinkable act, he retraces his steps and reveals
the
rich complexity of mid-twentieth-century Harlem
and its
mothers, sons, and daughters whose aspirations prevail
and perish within both white and black America.
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The
Man Who Swam with Beavers
Inspired by Alaska Native legends and myths of
her adopted state, Nancy Lord explores humankinds
innate need for contact with nature in the contemporary
fables that make up The Man Who Swam with Beavers. The
title refers to a Denaina Indian story about a
man who lives with beavers, and realizes that all creatures
have "their own lives, as complete and legitimate as any others."
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Breakers
"Breakers brings together several
of this influential poet’s major, longer poems,
and presents new work. Paul Violi has written
poems in numerous nonpoetic forms: poems in the
shape of an index of a book, a TV schedule, and
the mooring plan of boats in a yachting marina
are examples. He is also very funny and very serious,
often at the same time. . . . We know by now that
the postmoderns, whoever they are, level high
and low culture, and can start a sentence on Mount
Olympus and end on Canal Street". -Martin
Stannard
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