Rosa Cuthbert Guy was een Amerikaanse auteur wiens werken vaak de diepe banden van familiale liefde en wederzijdse zorg verkennen. Haar proza behandelt teder thema's die resoneren bij jongvolwassenen en biedt inzichten in de kracht van interpersoonlijke verbindingen. Guy's schrijven duikt consequent in de veerkracht en het belang van familiebanden in het leven van haar personages. Haar literaire bijdragen worden gewaardeerd om hun authentieke stem en empathische weergave van de adolescentiële ervaring.
Part of a GCSE series that offers innovative texts celebrating the best of modern women's writing, with pre-reading activities, notes and course work assignments, this novel tells of Edith, a young black orphan who must decide whether to submit to, or fight, the prejudices that constrain her.
"What happens to a dream deferred?" asked Langston Hughes. Bird at My Window answers that question with a psychological study of a black man whose aspirations are subverted by his environment. Wade Williams wakes up in a mental hospital and is told he has assaulted his sister. As he retraces his steps during the course of the novel, the rich complexity of mid-twentieth-century Harlem and its problematic relationship to its residents is revealed in this powerful cultural critique. Rosa Guy was born in 1928 in Trinidad, and came to the United States in 1932. The author of fifteen novels and the editor and translator of several volumes, Guy is the founder of the Harlem Writer’s Guild. She lives in New York, New York.
Phyllisia eventually recognizes that her own selfish pride rather than her mother's death and her father's tyrannical behavior created the gulf between her and her best friend.
Billy is very young when his parents begin to plan his future. As he grows older one thing becomes clear. Billy definitely has a mind of his own. When new neighbors move in and tempers flare, Billy's high spirits and independent nature allow him to prove that sometimes parents can learn a thing or two from their child.
Presents a first-person chronicle of the final hours of a man sentenced to the gallows. This book offers graphic details of the prisoner's environment and a moving insight into his thoughts, reminiscences and despair at his impending doom.
Unabhängige Forts. von: Spurlos verschwunden. - Der 16jährige Imamu aus den Neger-Slums von Harlem wird verschiedener Überfälle verdächtigt und versucht sich zu retten, in dem er selbst Detektiv spielt. Ein Sozialkrimi.
Phyllisia ist nicht nur wegen ihres westindischen Akzents Aussenseiterin in ihrer Klasse in Harlem, New York. Sie ist fleissig - ihre Strebsamkeit wird ihr mit gehässigkeit vergolten. Ein Mädchen aber, Edith, die verwahrlost ist und ganz unten auf der sozialen Leiter steht, wirbt um Phyllisias Freundschaft. Es dauert lange, bis Phyllisia sich zu dieser Freundschaft bekennen kann.
Der junge schwarze Iamu wird verdächtigt, die behinderte Tochter einer reichen weissen Familie ertränkt zu haben. (IK: Krimi).
