Black Ice
Lorene Cary. Vintage Books USA, $14 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-679-73745-2
Cary, a black woman, recounts her challenging years as student and teacher at an elite prep school. Author tour. (Feb.)
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Reviewed on: 02/03/1992
Genre: Nonfiction
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- The Price of a ChildLorene Cary, Lorene CareySet during the antebellum period, Carey's first novel tells of a woman who escapes from slavery only to be haunted by the memory of the baby she had to leave behind. Continue reading »
- Black IceLorene Cary, Lorene CareyIn 1971, a 15-year-old black girl from suburban Philadelphia won a scholarship to an elite prep school, St. Paul's in Concord, N.H. Cary here recounts--with cautious affection and ironic humor--the Continue reading »
- The Price of a ChildLorene CaryCary transfers the clear narrative voice that marked her memoir, Black Ice, to her fiction debut. In 1855, Jackson Pryor, a powerful Virginia planter, departs for a foreign diplomatic post with his Continue reading »
- If Sons, Then HeirsLorene CaryCary tells a complex story of family, race, and the challenges of reconciling the present with a persistent past. Alonzo Rayne was raised in South Carolina by his great-grandmother, Selma. Now he Continue reading »
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