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Tell Me A Riddle And Yonnondio Tillie Olsen

Tell Me A Riddle And Yonnondio By Tillie Olsen

Tell Me A Riddle And Yonnondio by Tillie Olsen


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Two classics of American literature from one of the twentieth century's most gifted writers

Tell Me A Riddle And Yonnondio Summary

Tell Me A Riddle And Yonnondio by Tillie Olsen

Tillie Olsen carved a permanent place in American literature on the strength of a single book, TELL ME A RIDDLE in 1962. This collection was widely hailed as a work of genius, in which the voices of ordinary Americans, black and white, male and female, were given their own rhythms and forms of expression.

YONNONDIO, Olsen's only novel, was begun during the depression and completed in 1974. It tells the story of the Hollbrooks, an itinerant working-class family in middle-America during the thirties. Brutalised by poverty, they struggle to find a space to breathe, to dream and to create a bettter life for their children. Told in compelling, haunting prose, it is a profound and timeless story of the human will to survive.

Tell Me A Riddle And Yonnondio Reviews

Almost unbearable in its harsh poetry and bitter fidelity to lives that are now forgotten, or never known * ALICE WALKER *
Tillie Olsen's is a unique voice. Few writers have gained such ... reverence * MARGARET ATWOOD *

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GOR003876143
9781844085637
1844085635
Tell Me A Riddle And Yonnondio by Tillie Olsen
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Little, Brown Book Group
20080612
336
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