Tale of a sky-blue dress
1st ed.
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Word Count
64,750 words, Guess
Page Count
259 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL357641M
- ISBN-100380975505
- OCLC Control Number38856226
- OCLC Control Numbertaleofskybluedre00moss
- Library of Congress Control Number98017552
and 2 more
- LibraryThing315265
- Goodreads1268913
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3563.O8856 Z47 1998
Description
In this, her first prose work, the author of six books of poetry and winner of the most distinguished honors - including a MacArthur Fellowship Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship and a Whiting Award - delivers a passionate, and moving memoir. It is the story of the only child of a maid and factory worker who moved to Ohio from the segregated South of the fifties. Raised with much love, she flourished until the age of five, when disaster struck, in the form of a girl in a sky-blue dress. Her childhood was shattered by this girl, her babysitter, who took pleasure from inflicting pain, and whose reign of terror, even after its abrupt end, would send poisonous tendrils further into her life. Yet ultimately, Tale of a Sky-Blue Dress is about how a young woman retrieved her life from the grasp of darkness. It is about refusing to accept tyranny.
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