Clair got the name of her book from Rattlebone Hollow, a North Kansas City, Kansas, neighborhood. Her most recent work is October Suite, published in This novel takes a character from her chapbook October Brown and her novel Rattlebone and explores her life and experiences as an unwed teacher and African-American mother in the s. The novel is a journey of self discovery for its lead . · In perfectly cadenced vernacular, Maxine Clair speaks to us through the voices of Rattlebone’s citizens: October Brown, the new schoolteacher with a camel’s walk and shoulder-padded, to-the-nines dresses; Irene Wilson, naive and wise, who must grapple with her parent’s failing marriage as she steps eagerly into adulthood; and Thomas Pemberton, owner of the local rooming house, an Author: Maxine Clair. In perfectly cadenced vernacular, Maxine Clair speaks to us through the voices of Rattlebone's citizens: October Brown, the new schoolteacher with a camel's walk and shoulder-padded, to-the-nines dresses; Irene Wilson, naive and wise, who must grapple with her parent's failing marriage as she steps eagerly into adulthood; and Thomas Pemberton, owner of the local rooming house, an old man with a young .
Rattlebone Maxine Clair, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $19 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. Rattlebone; Coping with Gravity: Poems. Rattlebone, by Maxine Clair, is a unique coming-of-age story about a girl named Irene, a young African-American, girl growing up in Rattlebone, Kansas, as well as documentation of Rattlebone's other inhabitants whom all are connected to Irene in some way. Rattlebone is written in eleven moving, intertwined stories that end up coming together. Maxine Clair was born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas, in the s. She is a poet, short story writer, and novelist. She attentded the University of Kansas in Lawrence where she studied science. Clair went on to a career in medical technology as chief technologist at a children's hospital in Washington, D.C.
Rattlebone is a well written, engaging story about a woman's journey from childhood through adolescence. Maxine Clair captures all the trials and tribulations of the universal stepping stones of growing up - friendships, family, puberty, love and sex. In perfectly cadenced vernacular, Maxine Clair speaks to us through the voices of Rattlebone's citizens: October Brown, the new schoolteacher with a camel's walk and shoulder-padded, to-the-nines dresses; Irene Wilson, naive and wise, who must grapple with her parent's failing marriage as she steps eagerly into adulthood; and Thomas Pemberton. Maxine Clair’s Rattlebone () is a collection of eleven connected short stories set in the fictional town of Rattlebone, Kansas, in the s. In the first story, October Brown, Irene Wilson describes her teacher, October Brown. Irene is black and attends a mostly all-black school in Rattlebone.
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