Eye to the Sky: Storytelling on the Edge of Magic - Hardcover

Norfolk, Bobby

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1624910467 ISBN 13: 9781624910463

Verlag: PARKHURST BROTHERS, 2016

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An inspiring, beautifully-told testimony of a storyteller's quest for identity, healing, joy, and fulfillment. Masterfully written and engaging, Bobby Norfolk s affirmation of life will delight a wide range of readers. --Thomas Saxon, social worker and storyteller, New York City"

Great tumult, race riots, protests, and the shocking murders of the Kennedys, and Martin Luther King, Jr, shook the USA duringBobbyNorfolk s early years, providing pungent fodder for this introspective memoir. With charming anecdotes, thoughtful, probing, heartwarming memories, and occasional lapses into genuine goofiness, Norfolk s life story is honestly told a rollicking good read! --Doug Elliott, storyteller and naturalist, North Carolina"

"An inherently absorbing and engaging read, "Eye to the Sky: Storytelling on the Edge of Magic"is exceptionally well written and presented from beginning to end. "Eye to the Sky"is very highly recommended for both community and academic library American Biography, Black Studies collections, personal reading lists."--Helen Dumont "Midwest Book Review ""

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Nobody knows how to tell a story like Bobby Norfolk, and here he tells his own life story. Norfolk grew up in hardscrabble neighborhoods of Saint Louis, Missouri, during the 1950s and 60s, sometimes walking to elementary school from an apartment his parents could not afford to heat. Lifting himself up by force of will and God-given talent, Norfolk defeated a childhood stutter to become a high school dramatist and later an exceptional college student. The path was never easy—and often frightening. With men of color being killed all-too-frequently in America, Norfolk sought a personal identity based upon talent and hard work, but also upon where safety and justice might be found. He tells these stories—some heartwarming or humorous, some frightful and treacherous—honestly, with a graceful mindfulness that all would do well to emulate.

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• Verlag: PARKHURST BROTHERS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1624910467
• ISBN 13: 9781624910463
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192