Story for a Black Night
Story for a Black Night (ISBN 0618494839) by Clayton Bess (real name Robert Locke), published in 1982, is a family drama novel set in Africa. It won the 2002 Phoenix Award Honor Book award.
Plot
A 40-year-old man tells a story of his childhood, when he was ten, living with his sister, mother and grandmother. When strangers left a baby with smallpox at the house, the family is affected by the disease.[1][2]
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".[2]
References
- ↑ "Story for a Black Night", Kirkus Reviews, https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/clayton-bess-2/story-for-a-black-night/
- 1 2 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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