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008 931221s1994 nyu 000 1 eng
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050 00 $aPS3553.L2225$bR37 1994
082 00 $a813/.54$220
100 1 $aClair, Maxine,$d1939-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87935753
245 10 $aRattlebone /$cMaxine Clair.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c1994.
263 $a9406
300 $a213 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
505 0 $aOctober Brown -- Lemonade -- Water Seeks Its Own Level -- Cherry Bomb -- The Roomers -- A Most Serene Girl -- The Great War -- Secret Love -- The Creation -- A Sunday Kind of Love -- The Last Day of School.
520 $aIn Rattlebone, a "fictional" black community north of Kansas City, the smell of manure and bacon from Armour's Packing House is everywhere; Shady Maurice's roadhouse plays the latest jazz, the best eggs are sold by the Red Quanders, and gospel rules at the Strangers Rest Baptist Church. This is the black Midwest of the 1950s, when towns could count their white folks on one hand - the years before the civil rights movement came along and changed everything.
520 8 $aIn perfectly cadenced vernacular, Maxine Clair speaks to us through the voices of Rattlebone's citizens: October Brown, the new schoolteacher with a camel's walk and shoulder-padded, to-the-nines dresses; Irene Wilson, naive and wise, who must grapple with her parent's failing marriage as she steps eagerly into adulthood; and Thomas Pemberton, owner of the local rooming house, an old man with a young heart.
520 8 $aSparkling with lyricism, Clair's interconnected stories celebrate the natural beauty of the Midwest and the dignity and vitality of these most ordinary lives.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$zKansas$xHistory$y20th century$vFiction.
650 0 $aCommunity life$zKansas$vFiction.
651 0 $aKansas City (Kan.)$vFiction.
655 7 $aHistorical fiction.$2gsafd
852 00 $bglx$hPS3553.L2225$iR37 1994