Like One of the Family...conversations from a domestic's life.
de Childress, Alice
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good/Fair
- Librería
-
Madison, New Jersey, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
Brooklyn, N,Y.: Independence Publishers, 1956. 226pp. Gray boards, red spine, Rubbing at the spine edges, light toning to the text. Otherwise clean, unmarked. Unclipped pictorial jacket has two large chips on the top and bottom of the spine, stains on the front panel. In mylar sleeve. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Octavo.
Sinopsis
Alice Childress was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and raised an educated in Harlem. She pursued a variety of jobs, including assistant machinist, photo retoucher, saleslady, and insurance agent as she worked relentlessly to gain audiences for her work as a playwright, actress, and novelist. She also did domestic work for a few months; the day she quit she surprised her employer by throwing her keys at her head. The woman later asked her to return to work. This "only work" that Childress could find turned out to be valuable, for it provided her with firsthand experience of the job situation she would later depict in Like One of the Family . Her works include numerous plays including the Obie-Award Winning Trouble in Mind, as well as books for young adults such as A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich.
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Detalles
- Librería
- The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 029532
- Título
- Like One of the Family...conversations from a domestic's life.
- Autor
- Childress, Alice
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fair
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Independence Publishers
- Lugar de publicación
- Brooklyn, N,Y.
- Fecha de publicación
- 1956
- Palabras clave
- fiction African American domestic workers
- Size
- Octavo
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
Madison, New Jersey
Sobre The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
