Race and gender are also important issues in Cary’s first novel. Based on an actual story, THE PRICE OF A CHILD is a moving and suspenseful account of a courageous woman’s attempts to obtain. Based on the life of Jane Johnson (c. to ) and her escape from slavery, the historical novel The Price of a Child () by Philadelphia writer Lorene Cary (b. ) tells the tale of a freedwoman’s journey from bondage to freedom and describes the lives of freed African Americans in s Philadelphia. The title of the novel reflects that the main character, year-old Virginia (Ginnie) Pryor, . Cary’s first novel, The Price of a Child (), set in pre-Civil War Philadelphia, tells the remarkable story of an enslaved woman who escaped to freedom but had to leave behind her child. The text engages constitutional issues in the historical context of abolitionism and the Underground Railroad.
See all books authored by Lorene Cary, including Black Ice, and The Price of a Child, and more on bltadwin.ru The Price of a Child. Lorene Cary $ - $ Ladysitting. Lorene Cary $ - $ If Sons, Then Heirs. Lorene Cary $ - $ Pride. Lorene Cary $ - $ Free!: Great Escapes from Slavery on the Underground. The Price of a Child Lorene Cary, Author Knopf Publishing Group $23 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. Black Ice; If Sons, Then Heirs. A deftly written, if less-than-groundbreaking, second novel from Cary (The Price of a Child, ; a memoir, Black Ice, ) likely to appeal to Terry McMillan fans everywhere. Four complicated African-American women, all on the verge of 40, weave in and out of each others' lives in ways both sustaining and disastrous. The opening scene, where the primary players are introduced, is staged at.
"The Price of a Child is a book seared by a sense of mission But there is nothing preachy about [Cary's] narrative style. She is a powerful storyteller, frankly sensual, mortally funny, gifted with an ear for the pounce and ragged inconsequentiality of real speech and an eye for the shifts and subterfuges by which ordinary people get by. With Price of a Child —the story of Ginnie Pryor (cook, mistress and servant to a Virginia planter) and her struggle with slavery in —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. In a novel that examines the price of freedom and the value of a child's life, Price of a Child is "a stunning achievement a deeply engrossing story. In , Cary published her first novel, The Price of a Child. It is based on the escape of Jane Johnson, a slave from North Carolina who escaped to freedom with her two sons while briefly in Philadelphia with her master and his family.
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