Ticket to Exile
Edition: Trade Paperback edition
Publisher: Heyday; Heyday Books
Published: November 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9781597140652
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography; Poetry; Biography/Autobiography; American - General; Personal Memoirs; Biographies & Memoirs; Cultural Heritage; Literary; 20th century; African Americans; Biography; Poets, American; Segregation; Southern States
Description: Recounts Miller's coming-of-age in Depression-era Orangeburg, South Carolina. Reconstructs the sights, sounds, and social complexities of the pre-civil rights South and his youth as a closet rebel who successfully evaded the worst strictures of a racially segregated small town. By the time he is forced into exile, we realize that this fate was inevitable for a young man too intelligent and aware of the limitations of his society to remain there without disastrous consequences.