| International Standard Book Number |
9780802161321 electronic book
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780802161314 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
0802161316 hardcover
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
813/.54 23/eng/20230927
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| Personal Name |
Oliver, Diane, 1943-1966, author.
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| Title Statement |
Neighbors and other stories / Diane Oliver.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Edition Statement |
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Ã2024
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York, NY : Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2024.
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| Physical Description |
xvi, 297 pages ; 22 cm
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume nc rdacarrier
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Neighbors -- The closet on the top floor -- Before twilight -- Health service -- Mint juleps not served here -- Key to the city -- The visitor -- Banago kalt -- When the apples are ripe -- Traffic jam -- "No brown sugar in anybody's milk" -- Frozen voices -- Our trip to the nature museum -- Spiders cry without tears.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature. A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of twenty-two, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that explore race and racism in 1950s and '60s America. In this first and only collection by a masterful storyteller finally taking her rightful place in the canon, Oliver's insightful stories reverberate into the present day. There's the nightmarish "The Closet on the Top Floor" in which Winifred, the first Black student at her newly integrated college, starts to physically disappear; "Mint Juleps Not Served Here" where a couple living deep in a forest with their son go to bloody lengths to protect him; "Spiders Cry Without Tears," in which a couple, Meg and Walt, are confronted by prejudices of interracial and extramarital love; and the titular story that follows a nervous older sister the night before her brother is set to desegregate his school. These are incisive and intimate portraits of African American families in everyday moments of anxiety and crisis that look at how they use agency to navigate their predicaments. As much a social and historical document as it is a taut, engrossing collection, Neighbors is an exceptional literary feat from a crucial once-lost figure of letters"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Prejudices Fiction. sears
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Racism Fiction. sears
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
African American families Fiction. sears
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
African Americans Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Families Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Interpersonal relations Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
African Americans Fiction. Social conditions To 1964
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Short stories Fiction. sears
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Familles Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Racism against Black people Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Noirs amâericains Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Noirs amâericains Romans, nouvelles, etc. Conditions sociales Jusqu'áa 1964
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Racisme áa l'âegard des personnes noires Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Nouvelles. rvmgf
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
short stories. aat
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Short stories. lcgft
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| Additional Physical Form Entry |
Online version: Oliver, Diane, 1943-1966. New York : Grove Press, 2024 Neighbors and other stories (DLC) 2023044129 9780802161321
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