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From: linnea hendrickson <lhendr>
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 23:14:12 -0700
Has anyone else read Harriette Gillem Robinet's "Walking to the Bus-Rider Blues?" Set in Montgomery, Alabama in 1956 during the bus boycott, this short novel combines social history and a mystery story, much in the way that Christopher Paul Curtis's novels, do, but the writing is probably more accessible to slightly younger readers. The underlying current of outrage at injustice and oppression reminds me a bit of Rosa Guy's wonderful but flawed novel "The Disappearance" (1979) that was a Phoenix Award Honor Book a couple of years ago.
Linnea
Linnea Hendrickson Lhendr at unm.edu http://www.unm.edu/~lhendr
Received on Sat 09 Dec 2000 12:14:12 AM CST
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 23:14:12 -0700
Has anyone else read Harriette Gillem Robinet's "Walking to the Bus-Rider Blues?" Set in Montgomery, Alabama in 1956 during the bus boycott, this short novel combines social history and a mystery story, much in the way that Christopher Paul Curtis's novels, do, but the writing is probably more accessible to slightly younger readers. The underlying current of outrage at injustice and oppression reminds me a bit of Rosa Guy's wonderful but flawed novel "The Disappearance" (1979) that was a Phoenix Award Honor Book a couple of years ago.
Linnea
Linnea Hendrickson Lhendr at unm.edu http://www.unm.edu/~lhendr
Received on Sat 09 Dec 2000 12:14:12 AM CST
