Like one of the family :; conversations from a domestic's life
by Childress, Alice
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Very very mild amount of soiling to back of cover. Else binding tight and pages crisp and clean. Fine.
- ISBN 10
- 0807009032
- ISBN 13
- 9780807009031
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About This Item
Boston: Beacon Press, 1986. Paperback. Very very mild amount of soiling to back of cover. Else binding tight and pages crisp and clean. Fine.. Paperback quarto with color illustrated cover. xxxviii, 226 pages ; 21 cm. Black women writers series; Beacon paperback ;; 716; Beacon Fiction || Contents: Like one of the family -- Listen for the music -- On sayin' no -- Ridin' the bus -- Buyin' presents -- If you wan to get along with me -- Got to go someplace -- The pocketbook game -- New York's my home -- All about my job -- Bubba -- The health card -- Your soul ... another you -- Signs of the times -- Aren't you happy? -- Nasty compliments -- Old as the hills -- Mrs. James -- Hands -- All the things we are -- I liked workin' at that place -- Good reason for a good time -- I go to a funeral -- Weekend with Pearl -- More blessed to give -- Sometimes I feel so sorry -- I go to church -- I hate half-days off -- What does Africa want? -- I wish I was a poet -- Economy corner -- In the laundry room -- I could run a school too -- I visit yesterday -- Story tellin' time -- About those colored movies -- Why should I get upset? -- Inhibitions -- What is it all about? -- We need a union too -- Pretty sights and good feelin's -- Dope and things like that -- Merry Christmas, Marge! -- On leavin' notes -- The 'many others' in history -- Interestin' and amusin' -- A new kind of prayer -- History in the makin' -- Dance with me, Henry -- Ain't you mad? -- Discontent -- Northerners can be so smug -- Let's face it -- If heaven is what we want -- Where is the speakin' place? -- Missionaries -- So much for nothing -- The Benevolent Club -- All about Miss Tubman -- A B C's of life and learning -- Somehow I'd like to thank them -- Men in your life. || African American women -- Women household employees -- maids. Women authors. New York. 1950s.
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- Bookseller
- Bibliope by Calvello Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 89314
- Title
- Like one of the family :; conversations from a domestic's life
- Author
- Childress, Alice
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very very mild amount of soiling to back of cover. Else binding tight and pages crisp and clean. Fine.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0807009032
- ISBN 13
- 9780807009031
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1986
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