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Esperanza M. Cintrón Shades (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Condition
- Book Title
- Shades : Detroit Love Stories
- Publication Name
- Shades
- Title
- Shades
- Subtitle
- Detroit Love Stories
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9780814346884
- ISBN
- 9780814346884
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Year
- 2019
- Release Date
- 30/08/2019
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Item Weight
- 215g
- Series
- Made in Michigan Writers Series
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Topic
- African American / Contemporary Women, Cultural Heritage, Short Stories (Single Author), General
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Number of Pages
- 144 Pages
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Interconnected stories exploring life, love, and passion in an ever-changing community. Esperanza Cintrón's Shades: Detroit Love Stories is a short story collection that is distinctly Detroit. By touching on a number of romantic and sexual encounters that span the historical and temporal spaces of the city, each of these interconnected stories examines the obstacles an individual faces and the choices he or she makes in order to cope and, hopefully, survive in the changing urban landscape. Shades begins in the 1960s by following two young black women who are determined to find joy in their lives even as they struggle to make ends meet. Their lives continue to evolve under triumphant and disappointing conditions--falling in and out of love, giving birth, raising children, and struggling to "make it" despite disappointing and tenuous love affairs and relationships. The setting throughout the eighteen stories shifts as these women age and their children extend the timeline, reflecting on the city's social and political changes over three decades, as well as the pitfalls, tragedies, and opportunities these linked families encounter. Cintrón favors an everyday vernacular for her characters' voices in order to reflect the complexities of their working/middle-class, ethnic, and racial identities. Divided into two sections, Eastside and Westside, the collection gives a nod to the sometimes contentious geographical split marked by Woodward Avenue. Cintrón takes readers through city streets--from neighborhood bars to burger joints--while painting lyrical portraits of the unique and multifaceted characters whose honesty shatters the illusion of endless love and happily-ever-after fantasies, as they clash with the circumstances of economics and race. Cintrón's stories capture the rhythms of language and the poetry of the people and will interest readers of fiction or poetry who seek to understand love.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
ISBN-10
081434688x
ISBN-13
9780814346884
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6038741167
Product Key Features
Book Title
Shades : Detroit Love Stories
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
African American / Contemporary Women, Cultural Heritage, Short Stories (Single Author), General
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.5in
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3603.I5a6 2019
Reviews
In this vibrant collection of interconnected stories, Cintrón captures the struggles, joys, funk, suffering, and transcendence of a hard-living and hard-loving community and its people. So many characters left the page and lingered in my consciousness; so many shades of wonderful., A richly textured tapestry of the lived experiences of ordinary working-class Detroiters, men and women, the young and the young-at-heart, that brings to light the daily struggles of the disenfranchised and marginalized who strive to eke out a living; put a roof over their heads; care for their loved ones; fend off racism, crime, and urban blight; and keep hope alive through spiritual salvation, education, and love in one of America's postindustrial cities., We are invited into a world in which characters and their tales, over extended spans of time, connect and interweave with the intricate delicacy of a sunlit spider's web. I wish I had written them., Esperanza Cintrón has provided a detailed universe within her world in Shades: Detroit Love Stories , telling a wide variety of tales from a eclectic array of perspectives in this interrelated collection. I liked meeting these characters, getting to know them, then seeing them show up as secondary characters, and sometimes, secondary voices, in other stories. That paints a pretty elaborate landscape. Everything about this book sparks with energy and heartache and even some genuine good times. This family, headed by these two friends, faces so much, and Cintrón chronicles it all so eloquently., Esperanza Cintron really drew me close to her characters. I was enthralled by them, moved by their tragedies, and I enjoyed their lust for life. I caught myself asking why they get into these predicaments but then it is all there, it made sense. Before I knew it, I had reached the end of the book. What a read.
Copyright Date
2019
Lccn
2019-936419
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Series
Made In Michigan Writers Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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