RESCUING LITTLE ROUNDHEAD. A Childhood in Stories
Language: English
Published by Minneapolis, Milkweed Ed. (1996),, 1996
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Alkahest Books, Deerfield, IL, U.S.A.Alkahest Books
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Condition: Used - Fine
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xiv + 202 pages, octavo (approx. 5 1/4" x 7 3/4"). Book and dust jacket are in Fine condition, F/F. 040414A. "A moving chronicle.of a childhood cut short by racism and abuse but reclaimed by intellect and leavened by humor." African-American.
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- Title
- RESCUING LITTLE ROUNDHEAD. A Childhood in Stories
- Author
- Jones, Syl
- Publisher
- Minneapolis, Milkweed Ed. (1996),
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1571312153
- ISBN 13
- 9781571312150
- Edition
- 1st Edition, first printing.
- Seller catalogs
- Autobiography
Written as a set of stories linked by common characters and settings, the book portrays the richly nuanced lives of Little Roundhead - Jones as a child - and his family as they struggle for individual expression and civil rights. The potentially explosive network of personal, racial, and class pressures with which the family contends are still with us today. In struggling to overcome this increasingly difficult and dangerous reality, Little Roundhead manages to find within himself the strength and will to survive his experiences in the urban landscape that is, like both the characters and the story, portrayed by Jones in striking and absorbing detail.
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Established in 1984, Alkahest Bookshop took over the space and stock of the Atheneum Bookstore on Central St. in Evanston, IL. For many years we were a partner in Chicago Rare Book Center, which closed in 2017. We are now on-line, and have a select general stock, with large sections on U.S. history, art, and literature. We are members of the Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association (MWABA) and IOBA.
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