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Maud Martha (Faber Editions) - 'I loved it and want everyone to read this lost literary treasure.' Bernardine Evaristo (Paperback, Main)
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Maud Martha (Faber Editions) - 'I loved it and want everyone to read this lost literary treasure.' Bernardine Evaristo (Paperback, Main)
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Discovery Miles 2 750
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The stunning only novel by the celebrated poet and first Black
author to win a Pulitzer Prize, introduced by Margo Jefferson.
'Such a wonderful book. Utterly unique, exquisitely crafted and
quietly powerful. I loved it and want everyone to read this lost
literary treasure.' Bernardine Evaristo 'Maud Martha finds beauty
in the brutal formative moments that make us. It is one of my
favorite depictions of how a woman comes to trust her eyes.' Raven
Leilani 'The quotidian rises to an exquisite portraiture of black
womanhood in the hands of one of America's most foundational
writers.' Claudia Rankine 'Maud Martha reveals the poetry, power
and splendor of an ordinary life.' Tayari Jones What, what, am I to
do with all of this life? Maud Martha Brown is a little girl
growing up on the South Side of 1940s Chicago. Amidst the crumbling
taverns and overgrown yards, she dreams: of New York, romance, her
future. She admires dandelions, learns to drink coffee, falls in
love, decorates her kitchenette, visits the Jungly Hovel, guts a
chicken, buys hats, gives birth. But her lighter-skinned husband
has dreams too: of the Foxy Cats Club, other women, war. And the
'scraps of baffled hate' - a certain word from a saleswoman; that
visit to the cinema; the cruelty of a department store Santa Claus-
are always there . Written in 1953 but never published in Britain,
Maud Martha is a poetic collage of happenings that forms an
extraordinary portrait of an ordinary life: one lived with wisdom,
humour, protest, rage, dignity, and joy.
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