Product Description

Ten stories of Black life written with Ms. Bambara's characteristic vigor, sensibility and winning irony. The stories range from the timid and bumbling confusion of a novice community worker in "The Apprentice" to the love-versus-politics crisis of an organizers wife, to the dark and bright notes of the title story about the passengers on a refugee ship from a war-torn Asian nation.

Young girls, weary men, lovers, frauds and revolutionaries -- Toni Cade Bambara handles them all the expertise, passion and huge talent. As the Chicago Daily News said, "Ms. Bambara grabs you by the throat...she dazzles, she charms."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1202002 in Books
• Published on: 1982-08-12
• Released on: 1982-08-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Customer Reviews

More Like Polemics Than Short Stories
These short stories are written in a heavy-handed manner as though Bambera could not draw the line between political polemics and literature. There is no beauty and no flow in the writing. The stories read like postings on campus bulletin boards or neighborhood telephone polls.