Reena and other stories
By: Paule Marshall
Publisher: The Feminist Press
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Old Westbury, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780935312249
Subjects: Manners and customs; Short stories; Fiction
Description: B B B This collection of Paule Marshall's short works illustrates the growth of a remarkable writer. For the first time these stories, long out of print or difficult to obtain, appear together in a single volume. Introducing the volume is Marshall's much acclaimed autobiographical essay, "From the Poets in the Kitchen" from the New York Times Book Review's series called "The Making of a Writer." This collection included newly written autobiographical headnotes to each story and "Merle," a novella excerpted from Marshall's 1969 novel, The Chosen Place, The Timeless People, and extensively reshaped and rewritten for this collection. It stands as an independent story about one of the most memorable women in contemporary fiction.
Notes: On t.p. the second "e" in Reena is italicised.

"Including the novella 'Merle' and commentary by the author."

Bibliography: p. [211]
Table of contents: title: The making of a writer: from the poets to the kitchen; title: The valley between; title: Brooklyn; title: Barbados; title: Reena; title: To Da-duh, in memoriam; title: Merle.