Story for a Black Night

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Story for a Black Night
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First edition
AuthorClayton Bess
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Set inAfrica
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Company, Lookout Press
Publication date
1982
Media typeprint
ISBN0618494839
Websitehttp://webpages.csus.edu/~boblocke/bess/story.html

Story for a Black Night (ISBN 0618494839) is a 1982[1] family drama novel by Robert Locke, under the pseudonym Clayton Bess,[2] set in Africa.[3] It won the 2002 Phoenix Award Honor Book award.[4][5]

Plot[]

A 40-year-old man tells a story of his childhood, when he was ten, living with his sister, mother and grandmother.[6] When strangers left a baby with smallpox at the house, the family is affected by the disease.[7][8]

Reception[]

The book was included in the University of Chicago's Center for Children's Books' volume "The Best in Children's Books: The University of Chicago Guide to Children's Literature, 1979-1984", which called it "a stunning first novel", "taut and tender, deftly structured, vivid".[8]

There is also a link to the efforts of Rose-Marie Vassallo-Villaneau in her two translations into French. After the English version won the Phoenix Honor Award in 2002 for a book that has endured, she decided that she wanted to do a second translation, this time attempting her own French West African dialect.

Awards[]

Play[]

Also from this main page is a link to the 2014 one-act play "PURE HEART in Black of Night" with the author now using his playwright's name Robert Locke.

References[]

  1. ^ https://dc.ewu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=africana_pubs
  2. ^ "Tomorrow's Authors are Turning It Out Today". Los Angeles Times. 30 September 1985.
  3. ^ Spencer, Patricia (1990). "African Passages: Journaling through Archetypes". The English Journal. 79 (8): 38–40. doi:10.2307/818823. JSTOR 818823.
  4. ^ "Press Release for Graphia Books published by Houghton Mifflin Company".
  5. ^ https://www.childlitassn.org/assets/docs/2002huse1.pdf
  6. ^ https://standrewscollege.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/The-Role-of-Faith-and-Ideology-in-African-Fiction.pdf
  7. ^ "Story for a Black Night", Kirkus Reviews, https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/clayton-bess-2/story-for-a-black-night/
  8. ^ a b Zena Sutherland, The Best in Children's Books: The University of Chicago Guide to Children's Literature, 1979-1984, U of Chicago Press, 1986

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