Through the Ivory Gate

Rita Dove

Original title: Through the ivory gate

first published 1992 Vintage Books, 1993 278 pages

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"In 1987 Rita Dove became one of the youngest writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry - and only the second African-American to do so. Now in her radiant first novel, Dove combines her remarkable storytelling ability with what critic Arnold Rampersad has praised in her poetry as an "almost uncanny sense of peace and grace."" "It is the tail end of the Vietnam era, and Virginia King, most recently a puppeteer wit...

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Through the Ivory Gate hardcover · 1997 · Random House Value Publishing · 9780517196953
Through the Ivory Gate edition · 1993 · Tandem Library · 9780613235181
Through the ivory gate edition · 1993 · Vintage Books · 278 pages
Through the ivory gate edition · 1992 · Pantheon Books · 278 pages

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