Bibliograph

The bernice l. mcfadden collection, Gathering of waters, glorious, the warmest december, and nowhere is a place., Bernice L McFadden

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The bernice l. mcfadden collection, Gathering of waters, glorious, the warmest december, and nowhere is a place., Bernice L McFadden

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eng

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Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The bernice l. mcfadden collection

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Bernice L McFadden

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Gathering of waters, glorious, the warmest december, and nowhere is a place.

Summary

"McFadden works a kind of miracle-not only do her characters retain their appealing humanity; their story eclipses the bonds of history to offer continuous surprises." - New York Times , on Gathering of Waters "Riveting...so nicely avoids the sentimentality that swirls around the subject matter. I am as impressed by its structural strength as by the searing and expertly imagined scenes." - Toni Morrison , on The Warmest December "McFadden's lively and loving rendering of New York hews closely to the jazz-inflected city of myth....McFadden has a wonderful ear for dialogue, and her entertaining prose equally accommodates humor and pathos." - New York Times , on Glorious "An engrossing multigenerational saga...With her deep engagement in the material and her brisk but lyrical prose, McFadden creates a poignant epic of resiliency, bringing Sherry to a well-earned awareness of her place atop the shoulders of her ancestors, those who survived so that she might one day, too." - Publishers Weekly , on Nowhere Is a Place The Bernice L. McFadden Collection features four novels from the three-time Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist: Gathering of Waters (a New York Times Editors' Choice and one of the 100 Notable Books of 2012), Glorious (2010), Nowhere Is a Place (2006), and The Warmest December (2001)

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