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Description for Tongues of Flame
Paperback. This collection of short stories seeks to depict the changing relationships between black and white southerners, the impact of the civil rights movement, and the emergence of the New South. Brown constructs her characters in a plain style while breathing life into them with compassion and honesty. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
These beautifully crafted stories depict the changing relationships between black and white southerners, the impact of the civil rights movement, and the emergence of the New South. Mary Ward Brown is a storyteller in the tradition of such powerful 20th-century writers as William Faulkner, Harper Lee, Flannery O'Connor, and Eudora Welty-writers who have explored and dramatized the tension between the inherited social structure of the South and its contemporary dissolution. With Tongues of Flame, her first collection of short stories, Brown bares the awkward, sometimes hopeful, and often tragic suffering of people caught in changing times within a timeless setting. ... Read more
These beautifully crafted stories depict the changing relationships between black and white southerners, the impact of the civil rights movement, and the emergence of the New South. Mary Ward Brown is a storyteller in the tradition of such powerful 20th-century writers as William Faulkner, Harper Lee, Flannery O'Connor, and Eudora Welty-writers who have explored and dramatized the tension between the inherited social structure of the South and its contemporary dissolution. With Tongues of Flame, her first collection of short stories, Brown bares the awkward, sometimes hopeful, and often tragic suffering of people caught in changing times within a timeless setting. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
Weight
254g
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817307226
SKU
V9780817307226
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Mary Brown
Mary Ward Brown is an award-winning writer who lives in her family home in Browns, Alabama
Reviews for Tongues of Flame
"In prose as pure as branch water, Mary Ward Brown captures the complex changes in the New South." - People Magazine "Tongues of Flame is well written and delivered in a measured, caring voice." - New York Times "Brown's stories are about old Southerners; not really beached and not quite derelict, but with little room for maneuvering in the low ... Read more