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Leaving : a novel / Richard Dry.
Van Pelt Library PS3604.R9 L43 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dry, Richard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American families--Fiction.
- African American families.
- Oakland (Calif.)--Fiction.
- Oakland (Calif.).
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 452 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- "Leaving" begins in 1959, when newly-widowed and pregnant Ruby Washington and her half-brother, Easton, board a bus in rural South Carolina destined for California. Their lives, and the lives of Ruby's daughter Lida and her children are played out against the turbulent backdrop of the '60s and the drug-infested neighborhoods of the '80s and '90s.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [449]-452).
- ISBN:
- 0312283318
- OCLC:
- 47665071
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