Miss Muriel and other stories / Ann Petry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Petry, Ann, 1908-1997.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Black women writers series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Fiction.

African Americans.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 305 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Beacon Press, 1989.

Summary:

'These stories reflect both Ann Petry's achieved maturity as a writer and the common thread of anguish that runs through the infinite variety of the black experience in America.' -Philadelphia Bulletin

Contents:

Miss Muriel

The New Mirror

Has Anybody Seen Miss Dora Dean?

The Migraine Workers

Mother Africa

The Bones of Luella Brown

Olaf and His Girl Friend

Like a Winding Sheet

The Witness

Solo on the Drums

The Necessary Knocking on the Door

In Darkness and Confusion

Doby's Gone.

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1971."

"First published as a Beacon Paperback in 1989."

"Cover illustration: William H. Johnson, 'Café' (1939-40) ... Cover design Joanna Steinkeller."

"BP 802"--Spine.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has 2 color photographs of a dog laid in.

ISBN:

0807083119 :

OCLC:

18950326