No Crystal Stair
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- Synopsis
- Eva Rutland calls No Crystal Stair "the saga of a black family. It is not the black experience, for there is no such thing." She writes with honesty, compassion and courage about one black woman's life in turbulent twentieth-century America, and in doing so, she tells a story never told before. Ann Elizabeth Carter grew up in the segregated Atlanta of the 1920s and 1930s, part of the black privileged class, the much-loved daughter of a doctor-and the granddaughter of a slave. She was a charming, confident young woman with a well-planned life ahead of her. Then she upset all those plans when she fell in love. It was 1942 and Robert Metcalf was a member of the first black unit in the Army Air Corps, stationed at Tuskegee, Alabama. For the first time, she left her sheltered life in Atlanta to marry Rob. For the first time, she had to learn what it really meant to be a black woman in twentieth-century America. During the decades that followed, Ann Elizabeth's life-and her marriage-were shaped by the changes that shook the country, that redefined it. During those decades, she learned the truth of a lifetime. You have to guard the love you find-and overcome the hate that finds you.
- Copyright:
- 2000
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 469 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781551665191
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 05/16/08
- Copyrighted By:
- Eva Rutland
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- book lover
- Proofread By:
- Jim Baugh
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.