All-Bright Court | All-Bright Court

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Author: Connie Porter
First Published: 1991
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Realism
Time of Work: The 1960’s and the 1970’s
Setting: Lackawanna, New York
Principal Characters: Samuel Taylor, Mary Kate Bell Taylor, Michael (Mikey) Taylor, Venita Reed, Moses Reed
Genres: Long fiction, Realism
Subjects: African Americans, Freedom, 1960’s, 1970’s, Blizzards, Child rearing or parenting, Children, Factories, Family or family life, Husbands, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., Self-discovery, Suffering, United States or Americans, Wives
Locales: Lackawanna, NY

All-Bright Court consists of a number of stories about people, most of them black, who live in the same area of Lackawanna, New York, near the steel plant where many of the men work. Each chapter in the book is structured like a short story, focusing on a single point of view and moving inexorably through an episode or a series of related episodes to a well-thought-out conclusion. Unifying elements, however, make All-Bright Court a novel, rather than a collection of short stories. The book is arranged chronologically to cover a period of about twenty...

All-Bright Court | All-Bright Court

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