Ntozake Shange, Author . S&S $16 (192p) ISBN 978-0-689-83081-5
This novel set in Texas offers an insider's view of the African-American rodeo scene, with mixed success. Shange (for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf) vividly conveys the excitement and danger of trick riding...
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Ntozake Shange, Author Picador USA $15 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-14091-5
Playwright and novelist Shange writes of the creative and personal lives of three artistic black sisters from South Carolina. (Feb.)
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Ntozake Shange, Author Picador USA $12 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-13559-1
Shange's third novel is a portrait of a black woman artist presented through multiple perspectives. (Oct.)
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Ntozake Shange, Author St. Martin's Press $9.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-07728-0
This novel about a black family living in St. Louis in 1957 centers on Betsey, 13, who is restless, wants to ""be somebody'' and is being bused to a white school. Her mother and grandmother oppose and her father supports integration. When the father
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Ntozake Shange, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-11310-0
Like her first two novels (Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo; Betsey Brown), Shange's third offers insightful portraits of several young black women, most notably of Liliane, a visual artist. The book's narrative structure, which intersperses vivid prose-
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Ntozake Shange and Ifa Bayeza, St. Martin's, $26.99 (576p) ISBN 978-0-312-19899-2
Sisters and playwrights Ntozake Shange (for colored girls who have considered suicide) and Ifa Bayeza (the play The Ballad of Emmett Till) have composed a sweeping African-American saga animating 200 years of history through the voices of seven...
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Ntozake Shange, Author, Kadir Nelson, Illustrator , illus. by Kadir Nelson. S&S $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-82884-3
At once personal and universal, Shange's poem, "Mood Indigo" (published in her 1983 poetry collection, A Daughter's Geography
), serves as the narrative for this elegiac tribute to a select group of African-American men who made...
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Ntozake Shange, Author, Kadir Nelson, Illustrator , illus. by Kadir Nelson. Harper/Tegen/Amistad $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-125364-5
Nelson's (We Are the Ship)
jacket portrait of Coretta Scott, monumental and tender at the same time, sets the tone for this intimate picture biography. The artist's full-bleed paintings, powerfully molded and saturated with color, depict...
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Ntozake Shange, Author, Rod Brown, Illustrator , illus. by Rod Brown. HarperCollins/Amistad $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-133735-2
This unflinching collection of poems and paintings portrays the struggle for civil rights in all its anguish and triumph. Shange (Ellington Was Not a Street
), an Obie Award–winning playwright and poet, crafts powerful vignettes that trace the
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Ntozake Shange, illus. by Rod Brown. Collins/Amistad, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-133741-3
Shange and Brown’s (We Troubled the Waters) book of poems about an escaping slave won’t be easy for some readers to get through. Whipping, pursuit by bloodhounds (“dogs’ll tear your/ muscle right off the bone”), and other horrors haunt the slave and
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Ntozake Shange, Author, Linda Sunshine, Editor, Romare Bearden, Illustrator Stewart, Tabori, & Chang $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-55670-372-0
This galvanic fusion of poetry and mixed-media art leads readers on a dreamy stroll though a jazz-and-blues-drenched universe, from an urban setting to a bayou. Novelist/playwright Shange provides the synaesthetic text, imagining music through all...
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Ntozake Shange, Author, The Kamoinge Workshop, Author, Frank Stewart, Editor ; photos edited by Frank Stewart. Atria $29.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7434-7897-7
Poem follows photo in this 7" x 8-5/16" collection of 135 b&ws taken by the Kamoinge Workshop, a group of African-American photographers founded in 1963. Ostensibly of the African-American family, the photos are not necessarily...
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Ntozake Shange, Author, Michael Sporn, Illustrator Walker & Company $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8027-8490-2
An African American girl and her brother are the victims of a disturbing racial attack in this ripped-from-the-headlines picture book. Helene-Angel and her older brother, Mauricio, are taunted and assaulted by a gang of white thugs. The assailants...
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Ntozake Shange, Author, Edel Rodriguez, Illustrator , illus. by Edel Rodriguez. Hyperion $15.99 (36p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0554-9
Shange (I Live in Music) offers a streamlined, clearly affectionate account of the life of Muhammad Ali, who, she says in an introductory note, continues to inspire "hope and courage." Her portrait effectively reveals the fighter's...
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Ntozake Shange. 37 Ink, $21 (224p) ISBN 978-1-5011-6993-9
Acclaimed poet, playwright, and novelist Shange, best known for her play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf, takes readers on a kaleidoscopic journey through black womanhood in her first selected volume....
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