Story for a Black Night

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Story for a Black Night
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First edition
Author Clayton Bess
LanguageEnglish
Set inAfrica
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Company, Lookout Press
Publication date
1982
Publication placeUnited States
Media typeprint
ISBN 0618494839
Website http://webpages.csus.edu/~boblocke/bess/story.html

Story for a Black Night ( ISBN   0618494839) is a 1982 family drama novel by Robert Locke, under the pseudonym Clayton Bess, [1] set in Africa. [2] It won the 2002 Phoenix Award Honor Book award. [3] [4]

Contents

Plot

A 40-year-old man tells a story of his childhood, when he was ten, living with his sister, mother and grandmother. [5] When strangers left a baby with smallpox at the house, the family is affected by the disease. [6] [7]

Reception

The book was included in the University of Chicago's Center for Children's Books' volume "The Best in Children's Books: The University of Chicago Guide to Children's Literature, 1979-1984", which called it "a stunning first novel", "taut and tender, deftly structured, vivid". [7]

There is also a link to the efforts of Rose-Marie Vassallo-Villaneau in her two translations into French. After the English version won the Phoenix Honor Award in 2002 for a book that has endured, she decided that she wanted to do a second translation, this time attempting her own French West African dialect.

Awards

Play

Also from this main page is a link to the 2014 one-act play "PURE HEART in Black of Night" with the author now using his playwright's name Robert Locke.

References

  1. ↑ "Tomorrow's Authors are Turning It Out Today". Los Angeles Times . September 30, 1985.
  2. ↑ Spencer, Patricia (1990). "African Passages: Journaling through Archetypes" . The English Journal. 79 (8): 38–40. doi:10.2307/818823. JSTOR   818823.
  3. ↑ "Press Release for Graphia Books published by Houghton Mifflin Company". Houghtonmifflinbooks.com.
  4. ↑ Nancy Huse. "Re-Membering Broken Cultures in Story for a Black Night" (PDF). Childlitassn.org. Retrieved March 28, 2022.
  5. ↑ Prof. Kirti Y. Nakhare. "The Role of Faith and Ideology in African Fiction for Children and Young Adults: An Analysis of Achebe's Fiction for Children, Purple Hibiscus and Story for a Black Night" (PDF). Standrewscollege.ac.in. Retrieved March 28, 2022.
  6. ↑ "Book Reviews, Sites, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction". Kirkusreviews.com. Retrieved March 28, 2022.
  7. 1 2 Zena Sutherland, The Best in Children's Books: The University of Chicago Guide to Children's Literature, 1979-1984, U of Chicago Press, 1986
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