Linden Hills (Paperback)
| Author: Gloria Naylor |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
ISBN-10: 0140088296
ISBN-13: 9780140088298
Sku: 30014793
Publish Date: 4/10/2007
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(in Inches) 8H x 5.25L x 0.75T
Pages:
320
Age Range:
22 to UP
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There had been a dispute for years over the exact location of Linden Hills. (from the first line)
| Lester Tilson and Willie Mason, a pair of hip, latter-day poets, work their way down through Linden Hills, experiencing firsthand the lust, pain, hypocrisy, and valor of the hell-bound upper- and middle-class residents *Author: Naylor, Gloria *Series Title: Contemporary American Fiction Series *Publication Date: 1995/02/01 *Binding Type: Paperback *Language: English *Depth: 0.75 *Width: 5.25 *Height: 8.00 |
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Lester Tilson and Willie Mason, a pair of hip, latter-day poets, work their way down through Linden Hills, experiencing firsthand the lust, pain, hypocrisy, and valor of the hell-bound upper- and middle-class residents.Lester Tilson and Willie Mason, a pair of hip, latter-day poets, work their way down through Linden Hills, experiencing firsthand the lust, pain, hypocrisy, and valor of the hell-bound upper- and middle-class residents |
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Using Dante's INERNO as a basis for constructing her plot, Naylor tells the story of Willie Mason, a poet, and his journey through Linden Hills, a town where he and fellow poet Lester Tilson go to find work during the holidays. Linden Hills is, essentially, run by Luther Nedeed, a fifth-generation mortician who admires traditional white affluence and has sacrificed his soul and his identity to achieve it.
Using Dante's INERNO as a basis for constructing her plot, Naylor tells the story of Willie Mason, a poet, and his journey through Linden Hills, a town where he and fellow poet Lester Tilson go to find work during the holidays. Linden Hills is, essentially, run by Luther Nedeed, a fifth-generation mortician who admires traditional white affluence and has sacrificed his soul and his identity to achieve it.
Author Bio
Gloria Naylor
Gloria Naylor's father was a transit worker and her mother a telephone operator. She received a B.A. at Brooklyn College, and went on to attend graduate school at Yale University. From 1968 to 1975, she was a missionary for Jehovah's Witnesses in New York, North Carolina and Florida; from 1975 to 1981 she was a telephone operator for hostels. But she decided to become a writer because, as she says, "I felt that my presence as a black woman and my perspective as a woman in general had been under-represented in American literature."
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