| The Changelings Contributor(s): Sinclair, Jo (Author), McKay, Nellie (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 0935312404 ISBN-13: 9780935312409 Publisher: Feminist Press OUR PRICE: $14.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1993 Annotation: First published in 1955, The Changelings is a novel about a pair of stubborn adolescent girls who refuse to accept the racism and anti-Semitism of their respective communities. Their courage allows them to question and to cross over into the no-man's land of segregated urban neighborhoods claimed most recently by Jews, but now-in the early fifties-needed by African Americans. Anzia Yeziersky, in the New York Times, wrote that "in Judith, the author has created a portrait of a new kind of teenage gang leader, so imaginatively realized that she transcends mere realism." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 85006875 |
| Physical Information: 0.92" H x 5.4" W x 8.25" (0.90 lbs) 360 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Midwest |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: First published in 1955 and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, this novel revolves around a pair of stubborn adolescent girls who refuse to accept the racism and anti-Semitism of their respective communities. Their courage allows them to question and to cross over into the no-man's land of segregated urban neighborhoods, claimed most recently by Jews, but now, in the early fifties, increasingly by African-Americans. The New York Times praised "the power with which the author reveals the impact of racial] struggle on the new generation, whose survival lies in their power to love." |