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Gorilla, My Love
Overview
In these fifteen superb stories, written in a style at once ineffable and immediately recognizable, Toni Cade Bambara gives us compeIling portraits of a wide range of unforgettable characters, from sassy children to cunning old men, in scenes shifting between uptown New York and rural North CaroLina. A young girl suffers her first betrayal. A widow flirts with an elderly blind man against the wishes of her grown-up children. A neighborhood loan shark teaches o white social worker a lesson in responsibility. And there is more. Sharing the world of Toni Cade Bambara's "straight-up fiction" is a stunning experience.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780679738985
- ISBN-10: 0679738983
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: June 1992
- Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.46 pounds
- Page Count: 192
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