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catherine392's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
kleonard's review against another edition
4.0
At the beginning of this book, the author discusses her connections with and similarities to Lorraine Hansberry, and intimates that this will be a personal kind of biography. And while it is beautifully written and well-conceived as a biography, I never felt the connections Perry suggests are present. Instead, it's a good introduction to Hansberry and her closest friends and a few of her lovers, and it's a pleasant read, meandering from moment to moment in Hansberry's life. It emphasizes her social justice concerns and work, but it tells us that she was passionate rather than letting her own words do that work. It tells us that she was young and gifted and black, but quotes her own words only fleetingly. It's an excellent book, but that introduction promised so much more.
bribeatris's review against another edition
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hopeful
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5.0
erinkellyreads's review against another edition
I really wanted to be excited for this book! I love Lorraine Hansberry, and I was very interested into how she put peeks into her life into her work. I think that I need to read this one, though, not listen to it. I'll try again another time.
candelibri's review against another edition
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4.5
Dear friends with Baldwin, Simone and St. Vincent Millay. Mentee of Hughes, Robeson and Dubois. She went head to head with Bobby Kennedy in her political activism….Malcolm X came *out of hiding* to attend her funeral.
I’m blown away.
If I can do a quarter of what Lorraine did in her brief yet glorious life, it will be a life well-lived.
I’m blown away.
If I can do a quarter of what Lorraine did in her brief yet glorious life, it will be a life well-lived.
knitterscasket's review against another edition
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5.0
Wonderful literary biography of Lorraine Hansberry that paints a rich portrait of her complex and too brief life.