Stigmata / Phyllis Alesia Perry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perry, Phyllis Alesia, 1961-

Contributor:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American teenage girls--Fiction.

African American teenage girls.

Stigmatization.

African American quilts.

African American quilts--Fiction.

Stigmatization--Fiction.

African Americans--Fiction.

African Americans.

Teenage girls--Fiction.

Teenage girls.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

14 unnumbered pages, 235 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : genealogical table ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Hyperion, 1998.

Summary:

A Pulitzer Prize-winning editor offers a stunning debut novel--a lyrical story told through through a panoply of voices that matches the best in the rich tradition of African-American fiction, while charting new territory with its exploration of a young girl's apparent descent into madness.

Notes:

"Designed by Gloria Adelson/LuLu Graphics."

"Jacket design by George Cornell. Jacket illustration by Mike Benny."

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Banks Collection copy has [1] leaf of discussion questions laid in.

ISBN:

0786864087 :

OCLC:

38281711