The Bernice L McFadden Collection (Gathering of Waters; Glorious; The Warmest December; Nowhere Is a Place)
✍ Scribed by McFadden, Bernice L
- Book ID
- 108570746
- Publisher
- Akashic Books
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781617751103
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
"McFadden works a kind of miracle--not only do her characters retain their appealing humanity; their story eclipses the bonds of history to offer continuous surprises."
--New York Times , on Gathering of Waters
"Riveting...so nicely avoids the sentimentality that swirls around the subject matter. I am as impressed by its structural strength as by the searing and expertly imagined scenes."
--Toni Morrison , on The Warmest December
"McFadden's lively and loving rendering of New York hews closely to the jazz-inflected city of myth....McFadden has a wonderful ear for dialogue, and her entertaining prose equally accommodates humor and pathos."
--New York Times , on Glorious
"An engrossing multigenerational saga...With her deep engagement in the material and her brisk but lyrical prose, McFadden creates a poignant epic of resiliency, bringing Sherry to a well-earned awareness of her place atop...