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Neighbors and Other Stories (Faber Editions) Diane Oliver

Neighbors and Other Stories (Faber Editions) von Diane Oliver

Neighbors and Other Stories (Faber Editions) Diane Oliver

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Zusammenfassung

And when a social worker enters a family's woodland cabin - a sanctuary haunted by memories of their lost baby, and silenced son - she meets the fate of all visitors.

Tragically killed aged 22 in 1966, Diane Oliver's masterly stories resonate with renewed urgency.

Neighbors and Other Stories (Faber Editions) Zusammenfassung

Neighbors and Other Stories (Faber Editions): Introduced by Tayari Jones Diane Oliver

'This breathtaking collection is a marvel ... One of my literary foremothers.' Tayari Jones

'Astute, brilliantly observed, these timeless stories are remarkable. It's all the more poignant to know the writer died at such a heartbreakingly young age:' Jackie Kay

And she was becoming frightened too, looking at all those white faces pressed against the windowpanes.

One family comes under attack as their little boy prepares to start at an all-white school. Friends plan a sit-in at the Rose Crest Tea Room, only to be arrested. A female student - always the 'Experiment' - fails to integrate at a formerly segregated college: ignored by a sea of white faces, the closet is her refuge. And when a social worker enters a family's woodland cabin - a sanctuary haunted by memories of their lost baby, and silenced son - she meets the fate of all visitors.

Tragically killed aged 22 in 1966, Diane Oliver's masterly stories resonate with renewed urgency. Steeped in the uncanny horror of everyday life for the Black community in the American South of the Jim Crow era, these chilling tales explore toxic racism and the human toll of activism for 'the cause' with heartbreaking empathy and wisdom. Depicting families whole and broken, daily injustices and life-threatening struggle, Neighbors take you behind historic headlines of racism and activism into one life, one family, one heart - and restores a vital missing voice to the canon.

Über Diane Oliver

Diane Oliver (1943 - 1966) was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her father was a school teacher and her mother a piano teacher. After graduating from a segregated public high school, she attended Women's College (which later became the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and was the Managing Editor of The Carolinian, the student newspaper. She published four short stories in her lifetime and two more posthumously: 'Key to the City' and 'Neighbors' published in The Sewanee Review in 1966; 'Health Service', 'Traffic Jam' and 'Mint Juleps Not Served Here' in Negro Digest in 1965, 1966 and 1967; and 'The Closet on the Top Floor' in Southern Writing in the Sixties in 1966. 'Neighbors' was a recipient of an O. Henry Award in 1967. Diane began graduate work at the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop and was awarded the MFA degree posthumously days after her death in a motorcycle accident in 1966, aged just 22.

Tayari Jones is the New York Times-bestselling author of four novels. An American Marriage (2018) was an Oprah's Book Club Selection and championed by Barack Obama as well as being awarded the Women's Prize for Fiction and published in two dozen countries. A 2021 Guggenheim Fellow, Jones has also been a recipient of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the US Artist, NEA and Radcliffe Institute Bunting Fellowships. Her third novel, Silver Sparrow, was added to the NEA Big Read Library of classics in 2016. Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, University of Iowa, and Arizona State University. She is currently an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University and the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University.

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Neighbors and Other Stories (Faber Editions): Introduced by Tayari Jones Diane Oliver
Diane Oliver
Faber Editions
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Faber & Faber
2024-02-01
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