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The Sea Birds Are Still Alive (Vintage Contemporaries)
The Sea Birds Are Still Alive - Vintage Contemporaries Author:Toni Cade Bambara Ten stories of Black life written with Ms. Bambara's characteristic vigor, sensibility and winning irony. The stories range from the timid and bumbling confusion of a novice community worker in "The Apprentice" to the love-versus-politics crisis of an organizers wife, to the dark and bright notes of the title story about the passengers on a refu... more »gee ship from a war-torn Asian nation.
Young girls, weary men, lovers, frauds and revolutionaries -- Toni Cade Bambara handles them all the expertise, passion and huge talent. As the Chicago Daily News said, "Ms. Bambara grabs you by the throat...she dazzles, she charms."« less