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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Critically acclaimed novelist Jim Grimsley looks back at the federally mandated racial integration of his school in 1966, remembering his own first real encounters with black children and their culture. The result is a true and moving personal narrative of race relations.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. ?One of the most intelligent writers working today.? ?Kaye Gibbons With three critically acclaimed works of fiction--Winter Birds, Dream Boy, and My Drowning--Jim Grimsley established himself as a gifted, accomplished novelist. The Philadelphia Inquirer called him ?one of the finest Southern novelists to appear in a long, long time.? Now, with these four plays, collected for the first time, Grimsley shows that he is, as Romulus Linney puts it in his introduction, ?a writer of many seasons.? Here is award-winning drama that peers into the nature of human conflict. From the gritty streets of New Orleans, where a muscle man is rescued by two drag queens, to a prison cell, where Jesus is interrogated by his ambitious disciple, Grimsley?s plays ask what happens when divergent worlds converge. Each play challenges us to view otherwise opposing worlds and characters not in terms of how they contrast but in terms of what they have in common. Collected together, they form a powerful body of work by a talented and important writer--one who was awarded the Bryan Prize for Drama by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and was named Newsday?s George Oppenheimer?s Best New American Playwright.A STAGE AND SCREEN BOOK CLUB Selection.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. "White people declared that the South would rise again. Black people raised one fist and chanted for black power. Somehow we negotiated a space between those poles and learned to sit in classrooms together . . . Lawyers, judges, adults declared that the days of separate schools were over, but we were the ones who took the next step. History gave us a piece of itself. We made of it what we could." --Jim Grimsley More than sixty years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that America''s schools could no longer be segregated by race. Critically acclaimed novelist Jim Grimsley was eleven years old in 1966 when federally mandated integration of schools went into effect in the state and the school in his small eastern North Carolina town was first integrated. Until then, blacks and whites didn''t sit next to one another in a public space or eat in the same restaurants, and they certainly didn''t go to school together. Going to one of the private schools that almost immediately sprang up was not an option for Jim: his family was too poor to pay tuition, and while they shared the community''s dismay over the mixing of the races, they had no choice but to be on the front lines of his school''s desegregation. What he did not realize until he began to meet these new students was just how deeply ingrained his own prejudices were and how those prejudices had developed in him despite the fact that prior to starting sixth grade, he had actually never known any black people. Now, more than forty years later, Grimsley looks back at that school and those times--remembering his own first real encounters with black children and their culture. The result is a narrative both true and deeply moving. Jim takes readers into those classrooms and onto the playing fields as, ever so tentatively, alliances were forged and friendships established. And looking back from today''s perspective, he examines how far we have really come. "Does more to explain the South than anything I''ve read in a long, long time . . . Simply put, a brilliant book. While I was reading, I kept thinking two things. One, this is totally shocking. Two, it''s not at all shocking but a familiar part of my life and memory. Grimsley''s narrative is straightforward and plain spoken while at the same time achingly moving and intimately honest." --Josephine Humphreys, author of No Where Else on Earth "I not only believed this account but was grateful to see it on the record . . . The boy in this narrative is becoming a man in a time of enormous change, and his point of view is like a razor cutting through a callus. Painful and healing. Forthright and enormously engaging. This is a book to collect and share and treasure." --Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina "Jim Grimsley''s unflinching self-examination of his own boyhood racial prejudices during the era of school desegregation is one of the most compelling memoirs of recent years. Vivid, precise, and utterly honest, ?How I Shed My Skin is a time machine of sorts, a reminder that our past is every bit as complex as our present, and that broad cultural changes are often intimate, personal, and idiosyncratic." --Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire "In all his beautiful works, Jim Grimsley has told hard, hidden truths in luminous, subtle prose . . . Here, he renders history not on the grand, sociological scale where it is usually written, but on very personal terms, where it is lived. This is an exquisite, careful story of a white boy of simple background and great innocence." --Moira Crone, author of The Not Yet "Grimsley probes the past to discover what and how he learned about race, equality, and democracy . . . in this revelatory memoir." --Kirkus Reviews "Acclaimed writer Grimsley offers a beautifully written coming-of-age recollection from the era of racial desegregation." --Booklist, starred review &nbsp.…

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Hardback. Condition: Good. The Twills Gate links two very different realms. On one side of the portal is Senal, an advanced technological civilization of some thirty billion inhabitants. On the other side is Irion, where the world is flat and mighty wizards once ruled. Jedda Martele, a linguist from Senal, shares her people's assumption that Irion is backwards and superstitious and no match for her homeland's superior numbers and science. But as the two realms march inevitably towards war, Jedda finds herself at the centre of unimaginable events that will challenge everything she has ever believed about the world - and herself.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. At the University of North Carolina, Ronny?s made some friends, kept his secrets, survived dorm life, and protected his heart. Until he can?t. Ben is in some ways Ronny?s opposite; he?s big and solid where Ronny is small and slight. Ben?s at UNC on a football scholarship. Confident, with that easy jock swagger, and an explosive temper always simmering. He has a steady stream of girlfriends. Ben?s aware of the overwhelming effect he has on Ronny. It?s like a sensation of power. So easy to tease Ronny, throw playful insults, but it all feels somehow?loaded. Meanwhile Ronny?s mother has moved to Vegas with her latest husband. And Ben?s mother is fighting advanced cancer. A bubble forms around the two, as surprising to Ronny as it is to Ben. Within it their connection ignites physically and emotionally. But what will happen when the tensile strength of a bubble is tested? When the rest of life intervenes? The Dove in the Belly is about the electric, dangerous, sometimes tender but always powerful attraction between two very different boys. But it?s also about the full cycles of love and life and how they open in us the twinned capacities for grief and joy. …