DuBose Heyward (1885–1940)
Autore di The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes
Sull'Autore
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Opere di DuBose Heyward
Angel 4 copie
Ft Sumter 1861-1865 1 copia
Jasbo Brown and Selected Poems 1 copia
Mamba's Daughters 1 copia
Heywood, Du Bose 1 copia
Opere correlate
Twenty Five Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre: Early Series (1949) — Collaboratore — 25 copie
Columbia Workshop Plays: Fourteen Radio Dramas — Collaboratore — 3 copie
The Best Short Stories of 1927 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1927) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Porgy and Bess [1993 film] 3 copie
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre, Volume 1 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
The Reviewer, Volume IV, Numbers 1-5 (October 1923-October 1924) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
The Reviewer, Volume III, Numbers 1-12 (April 1922-July 1923) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Heyward, DuBose
- Nome legale
- Heyward, Edwin DuBose
- Data di nascita
- 1885-08-31
- Data di morte
- 1940-06-16
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Charleston, South Carolina, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Tryon, North Carolina, USA
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
dramatist
poet - Relazioni
- Heyward, Dorothy (wife)
- Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1937)
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Five star books (1)
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 33
- Opere correlate
- 20
- Utenti
- 2,616
- Popolarità
- #9,812
- Voto
- 4.2
- Recensioni
- 34
- ISBN
- 70
- Lingue
- 5
- Preferito da
- 2
This story is a moving, empathetic portrayal of poor urban blacks in the American South in the 1920's, an uncommon storyline for its time. The primary characters are fully fleshed out, with hopes and dreams, strengths and flaws. It contains one of the most dramatic and realistic scenes of riding out the storm surge of a hurricane that I have ever read. The story is well-framed, and the writing is beautifully poetic.
“But Porgy best loved the late afternoons, when the street was quiet again, and the sunlight, deep with colour, shot level over the low roof of the apothecary shop to paint the cream stucco on the opposite dwelling a ruddy gold and turn the old rain-washed tiles on the roof to burnished copper. Then the slender, white-clad lady who lived in the house would throw open the deep French windows of the second story drawing room, and sitting at the piano, where Porgy could see her dimly, she would play on through the dusk until old Peter drove by with his wagon to carry him home.”
The only difficulty, at least initially, is the dialogue, which is written in dialect. I thought it was supposed to be southern, but it didn’t seem to fit, so I looked it up and it is Gullah, a creole language that evolved during the slavery years on the Sea Islands, located off the coast of the southeastern U.S. As the novel progressed, I figured out the syntax and it flowed much better.
This book is a full of sensory details, providing a vivid sense of the Gullah culture and community. It is slim, but powerful. I found it poignant and expressive, fully deserving of a place on my list of modern classics.
… (altro)