KotiRyhmätKeskusteluLisääAjan henki
Etsi sivustolta
Tämä sivusto käyttää evästeitä palvelujen toimittamiseen, toiminnan parantamiseen, analytiikkaan ja (jos et ole kirjautunut sisään) mainostamiseen. Käyttämällä LibraryThingiä ilmaiset, että olet lukenut ja ymmärtänyt käyttöehdot ja yksityisyydensuojakäytännöt. Sivujen ja palveluiden käytön tulee olla näiden ehtojen ja käytäntöjen mukaista.

Tulokset Google Booksista

Pikkukuvaa napsauttamalla pääset Google Booksiin.

Ladataan...

Glorious

Tekijä: Bernice L. McFadden

JäseniäKirja-arvostelujaSuosituimmuussijaKeskimääräinen arvioMaininnat
14914182,078 (3.89)11
"The seeming inevitability of cruel fate juxtaposes the triumph of the spirit in this remarkably rich and powerful novel,Glorious. Bernice McFadden's fully realized characters are complicated, imperfect beings, but if ever a character were worthy of love and honor, it is her Easter Bartlett. This very American story is fascinating; it is also heartbreaking, thought-provoking, and beautifully written."--Binnie Kirshenbaum, author ofThe Scenic Route "Riveting. . . . I am as impressed by its structural strength as by the searing and expertly imagined scenes."--Toni Morrison, onThe Warmest December >Glorious is set against the backdrops of the Jim Crow South, the Harlem Renaissance, and the civil rights era. Blending the truth of American history with the fruits of Bernice L. McFadden's rich imagination, this is the story of Easter Venetta Bartlett, a fictional Harlem Renaissance writer whose tumultuous path to success, ruin, and revival offers a candid portrait of the American experience in all its beauty and cruelty. Glorious is ultimately an audacious exploration into the nature of self-hatred, love, possession, ego, betrayal, and, finally, redemption. aBernice L. McFadden is the author of six critically acclaimed novels, including the classicSugar andNowhere Is a Place, which was aWashington Post best fiction title for 2006. She is a two-time Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist, as well as the recipient of two fiction honors from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA). McFadden lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she is working on her next novel.… (lisätietoja)
-
Ladataan...

Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et.

Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta.

» Katso myös 11 mainintaa

Näyttää 1-5 (yhteensä 14) (seuraava | näytä kaikki)
I could not put down this book! McFadden drew me into Easter's story and showed me what the world was like for black women prior to, during, and after the Harlem Renaissance. Easter's struggles, successes, and life will stay with me long after the last page has been read. The prose is strong, lyrical at times in its description, with forthright observations that leave judgement to the reader. ( )
  KarenRinn | Nov 2, 2013 |
This review was written for LibraryThing Member Giveaways.
In her novel, Glorious, Bernice McFadden transports the reader to an era that should never be forgotten. The novel is a wonderfully crafted narrative of history, joy and heartbreaks as told through the life and eyes of Easter Bartlett, a kind and loving woman.
Easter brings history to life for the reader, who feels as if they are there in the novel, right beside her.
The narrative and dialogue is well-crafted, and the prose is an easy read. This book should be read and read again. I highly recommend it and believe it would be a perfect selection for a book club discussion. It is that kind of story, one to be read, contemplated and discussed.
  dwcofer | Jun 13, 2012 |
Praises to Bernice McFadden, she is one of the most gifted artists of contemporary literature. I have had the pleasure of meeting her on several occasions. Her Blog is wonderful to read when your in-between reading her books.

When her books are available for purchase, it is without a doubt that I will be running to the store to buy it. Glorious was no exception.

McFadden does an excellent job of weaving real historical figures and events with fictional ones into the story. The novel opens with the historic "Fight of the Century" between Jack Johnson and James Jeffries. Much mention is made of Marcus Garvey and his Universal Negro Improvement Association and Ota Benga, the African pygmy, one of the first humans to be exhibited in a zoo.

This amazing story takes you from the horrors of the South to Harlem Renaissance.
Referencing, Langston Hughes and A'lelia Walker, daughter of Madame CJ Walker and Claude McKay and Carl Van Vechten.

The protagonist and fictional character, Easter Bartlett is strong and resilient and was very likable. McFadden created unforgettable characters that draw you into the story with well conceived plots. LOVED IT! ( )
  Onnaday | Feb 7, 2012 |
Right off the heels of Loving Donovan by Bernice McFadden, I was encouraged by my Twitter followers to read Glorious. It did not take much coaxing! I am such a Bernice McFadden fan. I put down my current reads scored Glorious from the library and immediately started reading.

Our narrator is a young Easter Bartlett from Waycross, GA. We enter her life when her sister Rlizbeth has experienced a horrible life changing event. This tragedy changed the family forever and sent Easter on the journey of a lifetime. With her mother dead, father remarried, and sister despondent, Easter set off on an uncharted course. Her new life begins as a maid and ironically ends as one. Easter meets people and has experiences on her way that made for some great stories that she wrote about daily. After viewing a friend being lynched and baby cut from her womb, Easter knew it was time to leave the Jim Crow south. She finds herself in the middle of a traveling vaudeville act and falling in love with its main attraction, Rain. When Rain didn't return her love and betrayed her with another, Easter walked away and set off on another journey. This one led her into the arms of a young lover. When that well ran dry, Easter found herself on a train where she ran into her childhood friend Madeline. With no plan and no family ties, Madeline talked her into going to Harlem.

Easter started a new life in Harlem. Shortly after arriving, Easter had to make a major life decision. She also met the man she would marry, Colin, he was a West Indian. Then one day Easter had a visit from the past, Rain. Rain brought rain and sunshine into Easter's life. Throughout her life Easter wrote stories as an escape but now she had an opportunity to have her stories published. She became a part of the well known movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. Meredith, Rain's lover, encouraged Easter to publish her work and later became her benefactor. This proved to be a blessing and a curse.

I loved the blend of fact and fiction McFadden let flow throughout this book. I must say one of my favorite parts of the book was when Easter met Langston Hughes. McFadden just eased him in so seamlessly. It’s no secret that I am fan of McFadden’s work, but what I really appreciate about her writing style is how she blends a character’s background/history into the story. This is her “signature” in my opinion. Another reoccurring theme in McFadden’s work is women who are faced with some of the most insurmountable pain and suffering yet they persevere. These are women with real issues that they work through and find love and restoration in the midst of it all. ( )
  pinkcrayon99 | Jun 14, 2011 |
This review first appeared on my blog: http://www.knittingandsundries.com/2011/04/glorious-by-bernice-mcfadden-book.htm...

FIRST SENTENCE: If Jack Johnson had let James Jeffries beat him on July 4, 1910, which would have proven once and for all that a white man was ten times better than a Negro, then black folk wouldn't have been walking around with their backs straight and chests puffed out, smiling like Cheshire cats, upsetting good, God-fearing white folk who didn't mind seeing their Negroes happy, but didn't like seeing them proud.

We are then pulled into the life of Easter Bartlett beginning in 1910 as her sister Rlizbeth, wearing a new, pretty dress to celebrate Jack Johnson's victory, is brutally raped and left mute, in a time when the rape of a colored girl by white boys is ignored by the Sheriff.

Easter's life is full of ups and downs. She leaves Waycross, GA and we follow her on her life's journey through working as a domestic, to working with Slocum's Traveling Circus, where she is under the thrall of Mama Rain, a fascinating woman who takes Easter under her wing.

A few more stops down the road of life, after finding and losing her first love, finds Easter in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance. She meets the likes of Fats Waller and Langston Hughes, and marries Colin, who eventually puts all of their money into worthless shares of Marcus Garvey's Black Line stock without her knowledge and finds himself on the dark course of retribution.

As Easter's writing skills begin to pay off, with her stories and essays appearing in "The Crisis" and "Negro World", a chance meeting with Rain finds her as the protege of Meredith Thomas, who has her own literary aspirations. We read about how the early publishing houses finally start to slowly publish works by African-American writers, and of a competition by J. B. Lippincott where the best work on the life of a Negro by a Negro will win publication and a $1000 cash advance. To best the competition, Horace Liveright, publisher to such writers as T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, and Ernest Hemingway, opens up his own competition, with double the cash prize, and also opens it up to white writers.

As the circle completes, Easter finds herself back in Waycross during the time of Martin Luther King, where all of the betrayals, losses and hardship of her life are finally appeased in a sort of redemption.

Again, Ms. McFadden's writing is spectacular, taking the reader through those dark times and offering up an authentic feel of the life of a talented young writer whose light is buried under the color of her skin. There are no fluffy clouds and brightly-colored rainbows, just the tale of a spirit whom life seems to beat into submission.

I didn't feel a deep connection with the characters in this one, but I was still totally sucked into the story. I loved reading about the Harlem Renaissance, and, of course, I had to Google the stories of the publishing houses.

Another wonderful work, and one that is going on my keeper shelf.

QUOTES

Was she still writing? Well, she had to leave something of herself behind, something that said she'd been there and had made a contribution, because she sensed that her body would never yield a child. So her stories had become her babies. And the fact that her babies were conceived in her mind and not her womb did not make them any less alive, any less beautiful, any less loved, or any less glorious.

Easter and Colin stared at the cucumber sandwiches that the servant had set down before them and Easter wondered if white people truly enjoyed that type of food or if it was all for show and when out of the sights of colored folk, they hungrily gorged themselves on pig's feet and Johnny cake.

But to come to the end of one's days and find that the person who had smiled in your face while sinking a blade deep into your back, the person who had hated and despised you so severely, was now bringing you more misery even as she lay dead and cold in her coffin - well, that was too much for any person to swallow.

Writing: 5 out of 5 stars
Plot: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Characters: 4 out of 5 stars
Reading Immersion: 4 out 5 stars

BOOK RATING: 4.375 out of 5 stars ( )
  jewelknits | Apr 15, 2011 |
Näyttää 1-5 (yhteensä 14) (seuraava | näytä kaikki)
ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
Sinun täytyy kirjautua sisään voidaksesi muokata Yhteistä tietoa
Katso lisäohjeita Common Knowledge -sivuilta (englanniksi).
Teoksen kanoninen nimi
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta. Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
Alkuteoksen nimi
Teoksen muut nimet
Alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi
Henkilöt/hahmot
Tärkeät paikat
Tärkeät tapahtumat
Kirjaan liittyvät elokuvat
Epigrafi (motto tai mietelause kirjan alussa)
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta. Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
...and the end of all of our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and know the place for the first time. ----T.S. Eliot
Omistuskirjoitus
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta. Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
For my daughter, R'yane Azsa' Waterton,
who is the best part of me
Ensimmäiset sanat
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta. Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
If Jack Johnson had let James Jeffries beat him on July 4, 1910, which would have proven once and for all that a white man was ten times better than a Negro, then black folk wouldn't have been walking around with their backs straight and chests puffed out, smiling like Cheshire cats, upsetting good, God-fearing white folk who didn't mind seeing their Negroes happy, but didn't like seeing them proud.
Sitaatit
Viimeiset sanat
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta. Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
(Napsauta nähdäksesi. Varoitus: voi sisältää juonipaljastuksia)
Erotteluhuomautus
Julkaisutoimittajat
Kirjan kehujat
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta. Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
Alkuteoksen kieli
Kanoninen DDC/MDS
Kanoninen LCC

Viittaukset tähän teokseen muissa lähteissä.

Englanninkielinen Wikipedia

-

"The seeming inevitability of cruel fate juxtaposes the triumph of the spirit in this remarkably rich and powerful novel,Glorious. Bernice McFadden's fully realized characters are complicated, imperfect beings, but if ever a character were worthy of love and honor, it is her Easter Bartlett. This very American story is fascinating; it is also heartbreaking, thought-provoking, and beautifully written."--Binnie Kirshenbaum, author ofThe Scenic Route "Riveting. . . . I am as impressed by its structural strength as by the searing and expertly imagined scenes."--Toni Morrison, onThe Warmest December >Glorious is set against the backdrops of the Jim Crow South, the Harlem Renaissance, and the civil rights era. Blending the truth of American history with the fruits of Bernice L. McFadden's rich imagination, this is the story of Easter Venetta Bartlett, a fictional Harlem Renaissance writer whose tumultuous path to success, ruin, and revival offers a candid portrait of the American experience in all its beauty and cruelty. Glorious is ultimately an audacious exploration into the nature of self-hatred, love, possession, ego, betrayal, and, finally, redemption. aBernice L. McFadden is the author of six critically acclaimed novels, including the classicSugar andNowhere Is a Place, which was aWashington Post best fiction title for 2006. She is a two-time Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist, as well as the recipient of two fiction honors from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA). McFadden lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she is working on her next novel.

Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt.

Kirjan kuvailu
Yhteenveto haiku-muodossa

LibraryThing-kirjailija

Bernice L. McFadden on LibraryThing-kirjailija, kirjailija, jonka henkilökohtainen kirjasto on LibraryThingissä.

profiilisivu | kirjailijasivu

Current Discussions

-

Suosituimmat kansikuvat

Pikalinkit

Arvio (tähdet)

Keskiarvo: (3.89)
0.5
1
1.5
2 2
2.5 2
3 8
3.5
4 13
4.5 2
5 10

Akashic Books

Akashic Books on julkaissut painoksen tästä kirjasta.

» Kustantajan sivusto

 

Lisätietoja | Ota yhteyttä | LibraryThing.com | Yksityisyyden suoja / Käyttöehdot | Apua/FAQ | Blogi | Kauppa | APIs | TinyCat | Perintökirjastot | Varhaiset kirja-arvostelijat | Yleistieto | 203,234,409 kirjaa! | Yläpalkki: Aina näkyvissä