{"publishers": ["Louisiana State University Press"], "number_of_pages": 385, "isbn_10": ["0807122254"], "subject_place": ["New Orleans (La.)"], "pagination": "385 p. ;", "covers": [588758], "lc_classifications": ["PS3556.E4 P57 1997", "PS3556.E4P57 1997"], "key": "/books/OL669802M", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL241092A"}], "publish_places": ["Baton Rouge"], "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "genres": ["Fiction."], "source_records": ["bwb:9780807122259", "marc:marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part26.utf8:47550692:851", "ia:placewithouttwil0000feib", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2022-03-17", "marc:marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-005.mrc:119923186:1802", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/20220215_009.bib.mrc:49420465:2214"], "title": "A place without twilight", "dewey_decimal_class": ["813/.54"], "identifiers": {"goodreads": ["2391113"], "librarything": ["577093"]}, "edition_name": "LSU Press ed.", "lccn": ["97015673"], "subjects": ["African American families -- Fiction.", "African Americans -- Fiction.", "New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction."], "publish_date": "1997", "publish_country": "lau", "series": ["Voices of the South"], "by_statement": "by Peter Feibleman ; with a new afterword by the author.", "works": [{"key": "/works/OL2002021W"}], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "ocaid": "placewithouttwil0000feib", "local_id": ["urn:bwbsku:W7-AME-584"], "oclc_numbers": ["36884435"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "In the New Orleans of the '30s and '40s, things - and people - are supposed to be black and white. Cille and her light-skinned brothers are neither. They are \"the color that looks not-quite white next to a white man, and not-quite colored next to a colored man. It was a non-color in a place where you had to be something.\" The daughter of a dreamy alcoholic father who introduces Cille to \"Mr. Keats and Mr.\n\nShelley\" but who exits her life too soon, and a mother who teaches her children not the love of God but the fear of him, young Cille struggles for balance and identity in a world where race and class define people for life, and where her brothers destroy themselves beating against the bars of the cage of a divided culture."}, "latest_revision": 12, "revision": 12, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-07-14T03:50:29.233059"}}