Elizabeth Nunez

Gebundenes Buch

Not for Everyday Use: A Memoir

Beschreibung

A riveting memoir in which Nunez wrestles with her mother's determination to have her leave her Trinidadian homeland for America.

Autor

Elizabeth Nunez is the award-winning author of a memoir and nine novels, four of them selected as New York Times Editors' Choice. Her two most recent books are Not for Everyday Use, a memoir, which won the 2015 prestigious Hurston Wright Legacy Award for nonfiction, and the novel Even in Paradise, a contemporary version of Shakespeare's King Lear. Her other novels are: Boundaries (nominated for the 2012 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Fiction); Anna In-Between (PEN Oakland Award for Literary Excellence and long-listed for an IMPAC Dublin International Literary Award); Prospero's Daughter (2010 Trinidad and Tobago One Book, One Community selection, and the 2006 Florida Center for the Literary Arts One Book, One Community); Bruised Hibiscus (American Book Award); Beyond the Limbo Silence (Independent Publishers Book Award); Grace; Discretion; and When Rocks Dance. Nunez received her PhD from New York University and is a Distinguished Professor at Hunter College, CUNY, where she teaches courses on Caribbean Women Writers and Creative Writing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Akashic Books, Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781617752346
• ISBN-10: 1617752347
• Artikelnr.: 39409044