Prospero's Daughter - Hardcover

Nunez, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345455355 ISBN 13: 9780345455352

Verlag: One World, 2006

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Exiled from England for performing dangerous experiments on his patients, Peter Gardner flees to the Caribbean with his beautiful young daughter, Virginia, raising her in isolation except for the a few natives, including Carlos, a young boy of mixed race with whom Virginia develops a forbidden friendship that blooms into love. 12,000 first printing.

Biografía del autor

Elizabeth Nunez is the author of Grace, Discretion (short-listed for the 2003 Hurston Wright Legacy Award for Fiction), Beyond the Limbo Silence, Bruised Hibiscus (winner of an American Book Award), and When Rocks Dance. She was born in Trinidad and emigrated to the United States after secondary school. Nunez is a CUNY Distinguished Professor of English at Medgar Evers College. She co-founded the National Black Writers Conference, is executive producer of the acclaimed television series Black Writers in America (nominated for a 2004 NY Emmy), and now chairs the PEN American Center Open Book committee. Named Author of the Year by the Go On Girl Book Club for 2002, Nunez is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including fellowships at the Yaddo and MacDowell colonies and the Paden Institute, the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award, and the Sojourner Truth Award from the National Association of Black Business. She lives in Amityville, New York.

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• Verlag: One World
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0345455355
• ISBN 13: 9780345455352
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304