Publication

2014 - NewSouth Books, Montgomery, Alabama

Language

English

Word Count

51,500 words, Guess

Page Count

206 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781588383075
  • ISBN-139781603063517
  • ISBN-101588383075
  • ISBN-10160306351X
  • Library of Congress Control Number2013048608
and 4 more
  • OCLC Control Number869457913
  • Better World Books9781588383075
  • Better World Books9781603063517
  • Open LibraryOL31183774M

Classifications

  • DDC305.800975
  • LCCE185.97.T38 A3 2014
  • LCCE185.97.T38A3 2014

Description

In The Invitation, Clifton Taulbert returns to the themes of Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored, his award-winning book and the source of a major motion picture. This new memoir chronicles Taulbert's transformative experience of a supper invitation to a former plantation house in Allendale, South Carolina, where the successful adult confronts his childhood memories and wrestles with the legacies of slavery and segregation that demand to be acknowledged in his present circumstances. Transported back to a setting that looks and feels like the cotton fields and shotgun shacks of his childhood, Taulbert finds himself expected to cross racial barriers that no "colored" man could have broached without dire consequences. The Invitation is the story of the man and the little boy inside him wrestling with a past they both know so well, and of stepping into a future that is still being determined.

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  • The invitationNewSouth Books2014-01-01

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