{"product_id":"glorious-bernice-l-mcfadden-9781936070114","title":"Glorious","description":"\u003cp\u003e--\u003cem\u003eGlorious\u003c\/em\u003e was a finalist for the 2011 NAACP Image Award for Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"McFadden's lively and loving rendering of New York hews closely to the jazz-inflected city of myth. . . . McFadden has a wonderful ear for dialogue, and her entertaining prose equally accommodates humor and pathos.\" --\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Bernice L. McFadden's novel \u003cem\u003eGlorious\u003c\/em\u003e, which starts with a bang-up prologue, has a strong main character (based in part on Zora Neale Hurston), hard-driving prose, and historic sweep of several decades, including the years of the Harlem Renaissance, which has always fascinated me.\" --Jane Ciabattari, National Book Critics Circle President\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eGlorious\u003c\/em\u003e is set against the backdrops of the Jim Crow South, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Civil Rights era. Blending fact and fiction, Glorious is the story of Easter Venetta Bartlett, a fictional Harlem Renaissance writer whose tumultuous path to success, ruin, and ultimately revival offers a candid and true portrait of the American experience in all its beauty and cruelty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It is a novel informed by the question that is the title of Langston Hughes's famous poem \u003cem\u003eHarlem\u003c\/em\u003e: \"What happens to a dream deferred?\" Based on years of research, this heart-wrenching fictional account is given added resonance by factual events coupled with real and imagined larger-than-life characters. \u003cem\u003eGlorious\u003c\/em\u003e is an audacious exploration into the nature of self-hatred, love, possession, ego, betrayal, and, finally, redemption.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bernice L. McFadden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1936070111\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781936070114\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Akashic Books, Ltd.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.20w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary_award - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Hurston\/Wright LEGACY Award - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/08\/2010 pg. 34\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2010 pg. 70\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/09\/2010 pg. 81\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/22\/2010 pg. 22","brand":"Bernice L. McFadden","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43937593917695,"sku":"9781936070114","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_5a77c740-ac2d-4e3f-a3ba-58c1e0e9237d.jpg?v=1681430967","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/glorious-bernice-l-mcfadden-9781936070114","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}