Prose has also written five children's books, three young adult novels, and co-translated three volumes of fiction. Other books include Hunters and Gatherers, Bigfoot Dreams and Primitive People, two story collections, and a collection of novellas, Guided Tours of Hell. She has also written Sicilian Odyssey, The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired, Gluttony and Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles. Prose’s thirteen novels include Blue Angel, which was nominated for a 2000 National Book Award, Goldengrove and A Changed Man. Her most recent novel is Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932. Since 1995, he has taught creative writing at Kennesaw State University near Atlanta, Georgia.įrancine Prose is the author of more than twenty books. Currently, he is finishing a novel about the American deserters in Sweden during the Vietnam War. He is a two-time recipient of the Lillian Smith Prize for Fiction, a finalist for the Legacy Award from Hurston-Wright Foundation, a Sokolov Scholar from the Breadloaf Writing Conference and a Fulbright Fellow to Sweden. His novel, Bombingham (2001), is set against the activism for and resistance against civil rights in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963. His stories and poems have been published in Callaloo, African American Review, Short Stories of the Civil Rights Movement (2006), The Civil Rights Reader (2009) and other literary journals and anthologies. Grooms is the author of a collection of poems, Ice Poems (1988) and of a collection of stories, Trouble No More (1995). "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.Anthony Grooms earned a BA in Theatre and Speech from The College of William and Mary and an MFA from George Mason University. And for Walter, the war was just beginning. In the streets of Birmingham, ordinary citizens risked their lives to change America.
From a tortured past lingered questions of faith, and a terrible family crisis found its climax as the city did the same. As the great movement swelled around them, the Burkes faced tremendous obstacles of their own.
Their paper route never took them to the white areas of town. Walter and Lamar were always aware of the terms of segregation-the horrendous rules and stifling reality. The juxtaposition is so powerful-between war-torn Vietnam and terror-filled "Bombingham"-that he is drawn back to the summer that would see his transition from childish wonder at the world to his certain knowledge of his place in it. But all he can think of is his childhood friend Lamar, the friend with whom he first experienced the fury of violence, on the streets of Birmingham, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. In his barracks, Walter Burke is trying to write a letter to the parents of a fallen soldier, an Alabama man who died in a muddy rice paddy.
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