Dancers on the Shore
Stories
New York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2020, © 1964.
Format: Book
Edition: First Anchor Books edition.
Description: 193 pages ; 20 cm
Originally published in 1964, this collection includes three linked sets of sixteen stories about the Carey, Bedlow, and Dunford families. They represent the earliest work of William Melvin Kelley and provided a rich source of stories and characters who were to fill out of his later novels. Spanning generations from the Deep South during Reconstruction to New York City in the 1960s, these insightful stories depict African American families - their struggles, their heartbreak, and their love.
Contents:
The only man on Liberty Street. -- Enemy territory. -- The poker party. -- Not exactly Lena Horne. -- Aggie. -- A visit to grandmother. -- Saint Paul and the monkeys. -- What shall we do with the drunken sailor? -- Christmas with the great man. -- Connie. -- The servant problem. -- Brother Carlyle. -- The life you save. -- A good long sidewalk. -- The most beautiful legs in the world. -- Cry for me.
ISBN:
198489935X