Brothers and sisters : modern stories by Black Americans / edited by Arnold Adoff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adoff, Arnold, editor.

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

Series:

Laurel-leaf library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American.

American fiction--African American authors.

American fiction.

American fiction--20th century.

Genre:

Short stories, American.

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

253 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1975.

Contents:

Sonny's blues / James Baldwin

Maud Martha and New York / Gwendolyn Brooks

The boy who painted Christ black / by John Henrik Clarke

Marigolds / Eugenia Collier

Cotton Alley / Pearl Crayton

Rain God / Henry Dumas

Mother Dear and Daddy / Junius Edwards

The death of Clifton / Ralph Ellison

A love song for seven little boys called Sam / C.H. Fuller, Jr.

The sky is gray / Ernest J. Gaines

The library / Nikki Giovanni

The mountain / Martin Hamer

African morning / Langston Hughes

The poker party / William Melvin Kelley

The death of Tommy Grimes / R.J. Meaddough III

Neighbors / Diane Oliver

Blackbird in a cage / Carolyn Rodgers

from A bear for the F.F.I. / Melvin Van Peebles

The figure eight / John A. Williams

The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright.

Notes:

Originally published in hardcover by Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.

Publisher's advertisements: [3] pages at end.

Local Notes:

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

OCLC:

1880466