Dec 22, 2009

Days of Grace | Days of Grace

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Author: Arthur Ashe, Arnold Rampersad
First Published: 1993
Type of Work: Memoir
Time of Work: 1943-1993
Setting: Primarily the United States
Principal Characters: Arthur Robert Ashe, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Camera
Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
Subjects: Racism, Athletes, AIDS, Heart attack or disease, Geopolitics, Tennis, Viruses
Locales: United States

Tennis champion, role model, black celebrity, heart patient, and AIDS victim, Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr., managed to record his third and final memoir with matchless integrity. Coauthor Arnold Rampersad, the distinguished biographer of Langston Hughes, helped to bring Ashe’s voice to the reader with great clarity. Arranged loosely by topic, the eleven chapters of Days of Grace focus not on the deterioration of Ashe’s body but rather on the evolution of his spirit. While typically reserved in tone, the book reveals Ashe’s deeply personal journey leading up to his death from...

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Days of Grace | Days of Grace

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