Description
| Product ID: | 9780679742401 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Vintage Contemporaries |
| Title: | Through the Ivory Gate |
| Subtitle: | A novel |
| Authors: | Author: Rita Dove |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A debut novel by the 1987 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, about an artist on a journey of self-discovery—navigating a family secret, racism, and the conflict between marriage and career. “Skillfully evokes the mood of a decade when social change seemed not only possible but imminent.” —Washington Post Book World When a woman returns to her Midwestern hometown as an artist-in-residence to teach puppetry to schoolchildren, her homecoming also means grappling with artistic ambition, memories of rejected love, and shocking truths about her family. |
| Imprint Name: | Vintage Books |
| Publisher Name: | Random House USA Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1993-10-05 |
