Deep sightings and rescue missions : fiction, essays, and conversations / Toni Cade Bambara ; edited and with a preface by Toni Morrison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bambara, Toni Cade.

Contributor:

Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019, editor, writer of preface.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Social life and customs--Fiction.

African Americans.

African Americans--Social life and customs.

American fiction--African American authors.

American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

American fiction.

African American women in literature.

African Americans in literature.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

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

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 257 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Pantheon Books, 1996.

Contents:

Fiction. Going critical; Madame Bai and the taking of Stone Mountain; Baby's breath; The war of the wall; Ice; Luther on Sweet Auburn

Essays and Conversations. Reading the signs, empowering the eye; Language and the writer; Deep sight and rescue missions; School daze; How she came by her name; The education of a storyteller.

Notes:

"Book design by Deborah Kerner."

"Jacket photograph by Joyce Middler. Jacket design by Marjorie Anderson."

Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards - Nonfiction , Honor, 1997

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

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

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0679442502 :

OCLC:

34704954