| Invisible Women of Washington Contributor(s): Collier, Diana G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0932863027 ISBN-13: 9780932863027 Publisher: Clarity Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 86072862 |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5.54" W x 8.47" (0.60 lbs) 114 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "This novel will show you what it is really like to be powerless and poor in America". -- Patrick White "Collier's novel is just that, work of literature, not a leaden expose of what we should already know... it succeeds to a high degree.. I hope you will buy this book". -- The Nation "In The Invisible Women of Washington, novelist Diana G. Collier takes the reader to the edge of the abyss". -- Bloomsbury Review The setting is downtown Washington, a few blocks from the Capitol and the Smithsonian Institute. The characters are the inhabitants of a women's residence, paying $54 a week for single rooms, no cooking allowed, toilet down the hall. Welcome to hell. This novel on the experience of the homeless sheds more light than any Bill Moyers special possibly could. Collier plumbs the abyss with political acuity, humor, an extensive, solid characterization of even the most insignificant characters, and an unsurpassed eye for detail. Her vision transforms women we might have passed unseeing on the street into women who touch our hearts. |