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With The Price of a Child, Lorene Cary has produced a generous, sardonic, full-blooded work of fiction. Cary's passionate, intelligent prose and her assured command of historical events as they sweep across individual lives recall Mark Twain, Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy.

With The Price of a Child, Lorene Cary has produced a generous, sardonic, full-blooded work of fiction. The Price of a Child marks the emergence of a powerful voice in American fiction. Paula L. Woods, Philadelphia Inquirer.

The Price of a Child opens in the fall of 1855 In a remarkable feat of historical empathy, Lorene Cary has created an authentic American heroine .

The Price of a Child opens in the fall of 1855. A Virginia planter is on his way to assume a diplomatic post in Nicaragua, accompanied by his cook, Ginnie, and two of her children (one of whom is his). In a remarkable feat of historical empathy, Lorene Cary has created an authentic American heroine - a woman who finds voice for the appalling loss and bitterness of her past, and who creates within herself a new humanity and an uncompromising freedom. Her previous book, Black Ice, was published in 1991 and chosen by the American Library Association as one of its Notable Books for 1992.

Background: Philadelphian Lorene Cary's The Price of a Child is a novel set in Pre-Civil War Philadelphia in 1855. This is the story of a young female slave who escapes from her owner while traveling through Philadelphia and uses the Underground Railroad to find freedom, reclaiming her voice and her life. It could be because of something they heard about the book or just curiosity. Very few people does this because when they aren’t very interested, they give up on the book. From interesting to suspenseful to boring to interesting again, Lorene Cary’s novel The Price of a Child tells about a family who was able to become free.

In 1995, Cary published her first novel, The Price of a Child. Cary said she believe these twelve stories of daring escapes "allow our 21st-century minds to imagine actively the inner lives of enslaved people – and put ourselves in their places, not. with shame, but compassion and respect.

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In 1855, a Southern slave abandons her child to obtain freedom. She is Ginnie of Virginia who escapes while with her master in Philadelphia. The novel portrays her hiding from slave catchers, agonizing over the son she left behind and reinventing herself as Mercer Grey to become a famous abolitionist. By the author of Black Ice.

With Price of a Child-the story of Ginnie Pryor (cook, mistress and servant to a Virginia planter) .

With Price of a Child-the story of Ginnie Pryor (cook, mistress and servant to a Virginia planter) and her struggle with slavery in 1855-Cary continues has created a work that elevates the reputation she created with Black Ice, her memoir which won her comparisons to Maya Angelou and Richard Wright.

бесплатно, без регистрации и без смс. An intimate, gripping novel of the antebellum Underground Railroad, based on the true story of a valiant Philadelphia freedwoman - the first novel we have had from the author of Black Ice, the stunning memoir (. . An intimate, gripping novel of the antebellum Underground Railroad, based on the true story of a valiant Philadelphia freedwoman - the first novel we have had from the author of Black Ice, the stunning memoir (New York Times) of a black student's experience at a New England prep school in the 1970S. The Price of a Child opens in the fall of 1855. A Virginia planter is on his way to assume a diplomatic post in Nicaragua, accompanied by his cook, Ginnie, and two of her children (one of whom is his)

Lorene Cary’s new novel Pride (Nan A. Talese/ Doubleday, 1998; Anchor 1999) is told in the voices of four friends– subtle . The Price of A Child has been selected as the first city-wide One Book, One Philadelphia choice.

Lorene Cary’s new novel Pride (Nan A. Talese/ Doubleday, 1998; Anchor 1999) is told in the voices of four friends– subtle, idiosyncratic characters.

Book Description: With Price of a Child-the story of Ginnie Pryor (cook . In a novel that examines the price of freedom and the value of a child’s life, Price of a Child is "a stunning achievemen. deeply engrossing stor.

Book Description: With Price of a Child-the story of Ginnie Pryor (cook, mistress and servant to a Virginia planter) and her struggle with slavery in 1855-Cary continues has created a work that elevates the reputation she created with Black Ice, her memoir which won her comparisons to Maya Angelou and Richard Wright.