Copper Crown - Softcover

Lane Von Herzen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452269164 ISBN 13: 9780452269163

Publisher: Plume, 1992

Synopsis

Cass Sandstrom and Allie Farrell, one white and the other Black, depend on each other for strength and friendship during racial violence in 1913 Copper Crown, Texas, and their friendship continues over the ensuing years

About this title

About the Author:

Lane von Herzen has received literary fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, and Yaddo. She graduated from Dartmouth College with her B.A. in English literature and received her MFA from the writers' workshop at University of California, Irvine. Copper Crown was selected for the Discover Great New Writers series by Barnes and Noble and has been taught in Women's Studies courses at universities across the United States.

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Down Marston's hill and through the valley beyond, the wetness collected in the grass in glassy, glittered drops that caught the light of the sky and threw it back like the eyes of wild things. The trees stood up at the roadside with their green yearnings revealed, their stiff fingers chafing under a small wind. On the oleander trees, the blossoms hung in crumpled, pink rags, scattered over the curtains of leaves like a last-minute thought. Everything held a strangeness inside it that made it somehow new -- even my house, with its black-eyed windows and propped-out door, waiting for its homecomings with a wonder that looked like mine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Plume
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0452269164
• ISBN 13: 9780452269163
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 48