The Silver Crescent - Hardcover
Fiction. African American Studies. This collection of short stories explores a fascinating era of African American history with wisdom and understanding. "THE SILVER CRESCENT wends its way from Boston to Miami, stopping at Major cities, and passing near of through hundreds of towns and hamlets. The sturdy tracks are a visible presence along its route, and the stories contained here happen within the sight and sound of the train. Some tales tell of affluent neighbors while other wander over to "the other side of the tracks"--Andrew Arkin. Leslie Woodard is praised for her fluid prose that travels seamlessly between the individual and collective memory. "Leslie Woodard's luminous prose characters that haunt you, her tales, so human, rich with longing and regret.. She is a master storyteller"--Leslie T. Sharpe.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author:
Leslie Woodard is the author of the short story collection, The Silver Crescent. She was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in 2002 and is currently at work on a novel, tentatively titled "The Last Tour of the Hot-House Flower," which is loosely drawn on her experiences as a dancer with the Dance Theater of Harlem. She is particularly interested in the ways a writer uses language coupled with his or her unique voice and perspective to build three-dimensional worlds and the characters that reside within them.
From Publishers Weekly:
Without much else to tie together the four stories that comprise Woodard's first book, the author's playful use of language binds them just as well as a cohesive arc or tone. The first three stories are excellent warmups: "Ask the Gentleman," about a black man and the unattainable white woman he loves; "The Tale of the Pegasus," about a despised old woman who sees a flock of the winged horses; and "The Race," about a train porter watching a car keeping pace along the tracks. Woodard's linguistic skill shines most brightly in the final story, the novella-length "The Backs of the Playing Cards," which follows 14-year-old Jasper through the summer of 1941, when her widowed father sends her from their Washington, D.C., home to stay with her three maiden aunts in Revere, Va. There, Jasper learns about her family, Southern race relations and smalltown living, where "everybody sees everything, like goldfish at the bottom of a pond." Woodard's sharp ear gives the dialogue weight and authenticity, as when Jasper's new friend Dorice asks if Jasper remembers her mother, "[a]ll of her, her face and her toes and everything?". These stories have their moments and leave one awaiting Woodard's first novel. (May)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherGorgeous Notions Press
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0974346845
- ISBN 13 9780974346847
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages175
(No Available Copies)
Search Books: Create a WantIf you know the book but cannot find it on AbeBooks, we can automatically search for it on your behalf as new inventory is added. If it is added to AbeBooks by one of our member booksellers, we will notify you!
Create a Want