praisesong for the widow造句

• Johnson, the protagonist of " Praisesong for the Widow ."
• In " Praisesong for the Widow ", Avey and Jerome Johnson are forced to move to the back of the bus in traveling south to South Carolina, and make reference to doing this as a result of the Jim Crow laws.
• In the 1983 novel " Praisesong for the Widow " by Paule Marshall, Part III ( " Lav?T阾e " ), Papa Legba appears in disguise to guide the heroine Avey Johnson when she has arrived at a crucial crossroad in her life.
• Marshall's other works include the novels " The Chosen Place, the Timeless People " ( 1969 ) and " Praisesong for the Widow " ( 1983 ) and the fiction collection " Soul Clap Hands and Sing " ( 1961 ).
• "It doesn't take a reader long to figure out where Paule Marshall is headed in her ultimately successful new novel, " Praisesong for the Widow " . "-Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, " The New York Times ", 1983.
• ""'Praisesong for the Widow " "'is a 1983 novel by Paule Marshall that takes place in the mid-1970s, chronicling the life of Avey Johnson, a 64-year-old African-American widow on a physical and emotional journey in the Caribbean island of Carriacou.
• She subsequently published the novels " The Chosen Place, the Timeless People " ( 1969 ), which the " New York Times Book Review " called " one of the four or five most impressive novels ever written by a black American ", and " Praisesong for the Widow " ( 1983 ), the latter winning the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award in 1984.