- Fiction, Droughts, Farm life, African Americans
As a great wall of dust moves across their drought-stricken farm, a family's distress is relieved by a young man called Drylongso, who literally blows into their lives with the storm.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Virginia Hamilton
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 54
- Publisher
- Tandem Library, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Harcourt Paperbacks
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780152242411
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“Lindy skipped along, leaving a trail of dust behind her.”
Virginia Hamilton was born and raised in Yellow Springs, Ohio. She attended Antioch College on a scholarship, and then transferred to Ohio State University in 1956 to study literature and creative writing. In 1958 she moved to New York City where she worked odd jobs, studied fiction writing at the New School for Social Research, and wrote. Hamilton married in 1960 and became a full-time writer. In 1967 she published her first book, Zeely, published in 1967, which won numerous awards, including the Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. In 1969, Hamilton and her family moved
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