An edition of A devil and a good woman, too (1997)

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the lives of Julia Peterkin

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An edition of A devil and a good woman, too (1997)

A devil and a good woman, too

the lives of Julia Peterkin

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Julia Peterkin revolutionized American literature by writing seriously about the lives of plain black farming people. In five bold, lyrical books she pushed the bounds of realism to earn the startled praise of such intellectuals and literary artists as W. E. B. Du Bois and Langston Hughes.

A plantation mistress who vowed to "write what is, even if it is unpleasant," she took up writing at age forty, produced two best-selling novels, and won a Pulitzer Prize before mysteriously abandoning writing twelve years later. Peterkin's fiction chronicles the collapse of plantation agriculture on the Gullah coast of South Carolina. At the same time her writings are a thinly veiled autobiography of a southern white woman struggling to create something new out of the beauty and sorrow around her.

The first full account of Peterkin's life, A Devil and a Good Woman, Too is an exemplary biography of a brilliant, enigmatic woman who defied convention, lived as she pleased, and wrote what she knew.

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343

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Devil and a Good Woman, Too: The Lives of Julia Peterkin
2008, University of Georgia Press
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A Devil and a Good Woman, Too: The Lives of Julia Peterkin
September 1999, University of Georgia Press
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Cover of: A devil and a good woman, too
A devil and a good woman, too: the lives of Julia Peterkin
1997, University of Georgia Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-327) and index.

Published in
Athens

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.52, B
Library of Congress
PS3531.E77 Z97 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
xx, 343 p. :
Number of pages
343

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Open Library
OL667461M
Internet Archive
devilandgoodwoma00will
ISBN 10
0820319120
LCCN
97013189
OCLC/WorldCat
36713169
Library Thing
1975103
Goodreads
1605224

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