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American Dreams

By Sapphire

By Sapphire

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Part of Vintage Contemporaries

Category: Poetry

Paperback $15.00

Jun 18, 1996 | ISBN 9780679767992

American Dreams by Sapphire
Paperback $15.00
Jun 18, 1996 | ISBN 9780679767992

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About American Dreams

In the tradition of Alice Walker, this electrifying new African American voice delivers the verdict on the urban condition in a sensual, propulsive, and prophetic book of poetry and prose.

Whether she is writing about an enraged teenager gone "wilding" in Central Park, fifteen-year-old Latasha Harlins gunned down by a Korean grocer, or a brutalized child who grows up to escape her probable fate through the miracle of art, Sapphire’s vision in this collection of poetry and prose is unswervingly honest.

"Stunning . . . . One of the strongest debut collections of the ’90s."–Publishers Weekly

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About Sapphire

Sapphire is the author of American Dreams, a collection of poetry that was cited by Publishers Weekly as “one of the strongest debut collections of the nineties.” Push, her novel, won the Book-of-the-Month Club’s Stephen Crane award for First Fiction, the Black Caucus of… More about Sapphire

Product Details

Category: Poetry

Paperback | $15.00
Published by Vintage
Jun 18, 1996 | 192 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679767992
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