| Third Girl from the Left Contributor(s): Southgate, Martha (Author) |
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ISBN: 061877338X ISBN-13: 9780618773381 Publisher: Amistad Press OUR PRICE: $17.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2006 Annotation: From the acclaimed author of "The Fall of Rome" comes a bold, breakout novel about the lives of three generations of African-American women, linked across time by the pull of desire and the transformative power of the movies. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | African American - Women - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2005040403 |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 5.18" W x 7.94" (0.69 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - Southern California - Cultural Region - South - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Oklahoma - Locality - Tulsa, Oklahoma - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Family - Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: At the center of this dazzling novel is Angela, a twenty-year-old beauty who leaves the stifling conformity of Oklahoma to search for fame during the rise of blaxploitation cinema in Los Angeles. But for her mother, Mildred, a strait-laced survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race riots, Angela's acting career is unforgivable, and the distance between them grows into a silence that lasts for years. It is only when Angela's daughter, Tamara, a filmmaker, sets out to close the rift between them that the women are forced to confront all that has been left unspoken in their lives. Bold and beautifully written, Third Girl from the Left deftly explores the bonds of family and the inextricable pull of the movies. |
Contributor Bio(s): Southgate, Martha: - MARTHA SOUTHGATE was born and raised in Cleveland. She received her B.A. from Smith College and an M.F.A. from Goddard College. She has been an editor at Essence, a reporter for Premiere and the New York Daily News, and a contributor to the New York Times. She is the author of the critically acclaimed novel The Fall of Rome. Southgate lives in Brooklyn, New York. |