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.)
Details
Reviewed on: 02/03/1992
Genre: Nonfiction
- Amazon
- Apple Books
- Barnes & Noble
- Bookshop
- Share
- Tweet
- Copy Link
More By and About this Authorchevron_right
- 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 »
PW EDITORS’ PICKS FOR
THE BEST NEW BOOKS
PW EDITORS’ PICKS FOR THE BEST NEW BOOKS
Featured Nonfiction Reviews
No Human Involved: The Serial Murder of Black Women and Girls and the Deadly Cost of Police Indifference
Cheryl L Neely
Sociologist and criminologist Neely (You’re Dead—So What?) offers a rigorous, unsettling examination of how serial killers targeting Black women have murdered with impunity Continue reading »
How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty
Bonny Reichert
Journalist and chef Reichert debuts with a mesmerizing memoir about grappling with depression and growing up as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. The youngest child in a Continue reading »
Islamesque: The Forgotten Craftsmen Who Built Europe’s Medieval Monuments
Diana Darke
Historian Darke (The Ottomans) offers a meticulous and piercing reassessment of the origins of the “Romanesque” style in medieval architecture. The Romanesque—long meant to Continue reading »
Patriot: A Memoir
Alexei Navalny
In this intrepid memoir, Russian political dissident Navalny, who died under suspicious circumstances last February, recaps his career fighting against what he depicts as a Continue reading »
chevron_right
