Ice by Toni Cade Bambara

Author:Toni Cade Bambara [Bambara, Toni Cade]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2015-04-28T00:00:00+00:00

BOOKS BY

TONI CADE BAMBARA

DEEP SIGHTINGS AND RESCUE MISSIONS

Fiction, Essays, and Conversations

Edited and with a preface by Toni Morrison, this posthumous collection of short stories, essays, and interviews offers lasting evidence of Bambara’s passion, lyricism, and tough critical intelligence. Included are tales of mothers and daughters, rebels and seeresses, community activists and aging gangbangers, as well as essays on film and literature, politics and race, and on the difficulties and necessities of forging an identity as an artist, activist, and black woman. It is a treasure trove not only for those familiar with Bambara’s work, but for a new generation of readers who will recognize her contribution to contemporary American letters.

Fiction

THOSE BONES ARE NOT MY CHILD

Written over a span of twelve years, and edited by Toni Morrison, who calls Those Bones Are Not My Child the author’s magnum opus, Bambara’s last novel leaves us with an enduring and revelatory chronicle of an American nightmare. In a suspenseful novel of uncommon depth and intensity, Toni Cade Bambara renders a harrowing portrait of a city under siege. Having elected its first black mayor in 1980, Atlanta projected an image of political progressiveness and prosperity. But between September 1979 and June 1981, more than forty black children were kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and brutally murdered. A separated mother of three holding down several jobs, Zala Spencer has managed to survive on the margins of a flourishing economy until she awakens one morning to find her teenage son Sonny missing. As the hours turn into days, Zala realizes that Sonny is among the many cases of missing children just beginning to attract national attention. Growing increasingly disillusioned with the authorities, who respond to Sonny’s disappearance with cold indifference, Zala and her estranged husband embark on a desperate search. Through the eyes of a family seized by anguish and terror, we watch a city roiling with political, racial, and class tensions.

Fiction

GORILLA, MY LOVE

In these fifteen superb stories, written in a style at once ineffable and immediately recognizable, Toni Cade Bambara gives us compelling portraits of a wide range of unforgettable characters, from sassy children to cunning old men, in scenes shifting between uptown New York and rural North Carolina. A young girl suffers her first betrayal. A widow flirts with an elderly blind man against the wishes of her grown-up children. A neighborhood loan shark teaches a white social worker a lesson in responsibility. And there is more. Sharing the world of Toni Cade Bambara’s “straight-up fiction” is a stunning experience.

Short Stories

THE SALT EATERS

Set in Claybourne, a small town somewhere in the South, Bambara’s first novel chronicling black life in the South through the 1950s and 60s is the story of a community of black faith healers who, searching for the healing properties of salt, witness an event that will change their lives forever.

Fiction

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