A Devil and Good Woman Too: The Lives of Julia Peterkin

by Susan Millar Williams

Book Overview

Julia Peterkin revolutionized American literature by writing seriously about the lives of plain black farming people. In five bold, lyrical books she pushed the bounds of realism to earn the startled... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820319120
• ISBN13: 9780820319124
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 343 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Well written with excellent research!

This book gives the reader a vivid account of the life and times of one of the South's greastest female literary artist's. I never once questioned the thoroughness of the reasearch, as Millar-Williams left no stoned unturned. Truely a great contribution to the truth about a not-so-pleasant era.