- Plantation workers, Pulitzer Prize Winner, African American women, Fiction
Pulitzer Prize; likened to Nathaniel Hawthorne' "Scarlet Letter". From Goodreads - Julia Peterkin pioneered in demonstrating the literary potential for serious depictions of the African American experience.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Earnest, grave, classical in form and prestige.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
YesNoUnclear
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Julia Mood Peterkin
- First published
- 1928
- Pages
- 345
- Publisher
- Pocket Books, Inc., Grosset & Dunlap, Franklin Library
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780820319568
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 2 have read it and 15 want to.
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
Matrix 202187% alikeBoth earnest, grave, classical in form.
After This 200686% alikeBoth earnest, grave, classical in form.
Both earnest, grave, classical in form.
زقاق المدق 194785% alikeBoth earnest, grave, classical in form.
Princesse de Clèves 167885% alikeBoth earnest, grave, classical in form.
Jitney 200185% alikeBoth earnest, classical in form, grave.
Both earnest, grave, classical in form.
Awakenings 197385% alikeBoth earnest, grave, classical in form.
The Cider House Rules 199985% alikeFilm · Both earnest, classical in form, grave.
A Most Violent Year 201482% alikeFilm · Both grave, earnest, classical in form.