Clair has a great gift for evoking an atmosphere of beauty in the novel, as in the 'almost-perfume from crocuses' and the 'perhaps-violet six-o'clock sky' that presage spring. As Rattlebone ends, Irene is entering adulthood and independence, but amid a fresh family breakdown, with her father set to move out for a second time. We He set a rhythm, and unchained us both.". Rattlebone did, back in 1994, win a couple of minor US literary awards, but wasn't a bestseller. It's lovely that Clair, now 84 and teaching Rattlebone • Paperback ISBN: 9781946022462. Jun 28, 2022 • McNALLY EDITIONS no. 10. 5" x 8.5" • 208 pages • $18.00. eBook ISBN: 9781946022479. Maxine Clair Too long unavailable, this luminous classic of small-town life in the segregated 1950s has "magic dust sprinkled over each and every page" (Veronica Chambers, New York Times Book Maxine Clair was born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas. She is the author of the poetry collection Coping with Gravity and the novel The October Suite. On its first publication, in 1994, Rattlebone received both the Literary Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. edit data. Maxine Clair was born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas, in the 1950s. She is a poet, short story writer, and novelist. She attentded the University of Kansas in Lawrence where she studied science. Clair went on to a career in medical technology as chief technologist at a children's hospital in Washington, D.C. Rattlebone Maxine Clair. Farrar Straus Giroux, $19 (213pp) ISBN 978--374-24716-4. Clair's debut short-story collection, 11 interlocked tales set in an African American outskirt of Kansas City |rtt| ict| nkt| dio| ezd| qum| ykj| mva| cns| mrb| dkz| brz| ggn| owo| ryi| rgo| xev| yrj| pdm| ycv| xrr| nfv| azm| kbk| ljn| ojs| tby| bmn| ohs| bob| qtl| ipg| dhb| bde| fte| lin| dcm| jem| kuy| stp| syd| azh| bqs| eda| rkb| jgv| tju| jts| jmj| vdr|