The Birds of Opulence by Wilkinson, Crystal

The Birds of Opulence (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813166919)

Author: Crystal Wilkinson
Product Type: Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Birds of Opulence by Wilkinson, Crystal

The Birds of Opulence

$29.95
The Birds of Opulence by Wilkinson, Crystal

The Birds of Opulence

$29.95
Format: Hardcover
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From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Blackberries, Blackberries and Water Street comes an astonishing new novel. A lyrical exploration of love and loss, The Birds of Opulence centers on several generations of women in a bucolic southern black township as they live with and sometimes surrender to madness. The Goode-Brown family, led by matriarch and pillar of the community Minnie Mae, is plagued by old secrets and embarrassment over mental illness and illegitimacy. Meanwhile, s

Author: Crystal Wilkinson
ISBN-10: 0813166918
ISBN-13: 9780813166919
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 03/18/2016
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.80w x 1.00d
By Crystal Wilkinson
By Crystal Wilkinson
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Crystal Wilkinson is the author of Blackberries, Blackberries, winner of the Chaffin Award for Appalachian Literature, and Water Street, a finalist for both the UK's Orange Prize for Fiction and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. The winner of the 2008 Denny Plattner Award in Poetry from Appalachian Heritage magazine and the Sallie Bingham Award from the Kentucky Foundation for Women, she serves as Appalachian Writer-in-Residence at Berea College and teaches in the Spalding low residency MFA in Creative Writing Program.

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