Young, Black, University of California educated, and dangerously back in love, Angelina Green is forced to make choices—intimate, political, and spiritual—as she struggles to bring coherence and direction to her zigzag, roller-coaster Berkeley life.

Who is Angelina?

Young, Al

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Sitting Pretty

Hardback 1st printing edition. "Loquacious ne'er-do-well and opinionated drifter Sidney J. Prettymoon, meanders around San Francisco, surviving on part-time jobs and easy-touch friends, managing touch relationships with various women, including his ex-wife, and ruminating on the attractions and shortcomings of modern life."

Holt; Rinehart; Winston

Snakes

The Song Turning Back Into Itself

The song turning back into itself; poems

Mamie Franklin, a former actress and a psychic consultant, looks back on her life and the secrets of her past

Seduction by Light

Literature & Fiction

United States

Delta

A fantasy novel about a middle-aged black ex-film star turned char lady, with a bizarre imaginative life. Mamie is blessed with psychic powers and has to cope with the return of her dead husband's ghost. Previous books by this black American writer include "Sitting Pretty" and "Ask Me Now".

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Young, Black, University of California educated, and dangerously back in love, Angelina Green is forced to make choices—intimate, political, and spiritual—as she struggles to bring coherence and direction to her zigzag, roller-coaster Berkeley life.

Who Is Angelina? (California Fiction)

University of California Press

The Literature of California is a landmark publication—unmatched by any existing collection and distinguished by its breadth, variety of sources, and historical sweep. The editors have been refreshingly inclusive and imaginative in their selection: some of the writers are internationally known, others are anthologized here for the first time. The richness of material, ranging from Native American origin myths to Hollywood novels dissecting the American Dream; from the familiar voices of John Steinbeck, Jack London, and William Saroyan to the less-well-known narratives of Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Josephine Miles, and Jade Snow Wong—all of it captures the spirit and scope of the state itself. This first volume of the comprehensive two-volume anthology is divided into four parts. The first includes stories, legends, and songs of the indigenous tribes. The second section comprises letters, diaries, reports, and travel narratives that trace a century of exploration, discovery, and conquest. Part III includes Mother Lode tales by Mark Twain and Bret Harte, the first signs of California poetry, the rise of narrative by California women, the nature writing of John Muir and Mary Austin, and some of the earliest prose from writers of Asian background, as well as the maturing fiction of Jack London and Frank Norris. Part IV traces the period between the World Wars, when California literature came fully into its own. A lively introduction contextualizes each section, and concise biographical material is included for each writer. Volume Two, to be published in 2007, concentrates on the second half of the twentieth-century, during which California became one of the most active literary regions in the world. A colossal contribution to the culture of the state, The Literature of California broadens our sense of this region's richness, both past and present, offering new ways of perceiving history, community, and oneself.

The Literature of California, Volume 1: Native American Beginnings to 1945

History & Criticism

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Who is Angelina?

Sitting Pretty

Snakes

The Song Turning Back Into Itself

The song turning back into itself; poems

Seduction by Light

Seduction by Light

Sitting Pretty

Who Is Angelina? (California Fiction)

The Literature of California, Volume 1: Native American Beginnings to 1945