Story for a Black Night

Story for a Black Night (ISBN 0618494839) is a 1982[1] family drama novel by Robert Locke, under the pseudonym Clayton Bess[2], set in Africa.[3] It won the 2002 Phoenix Award Honor Book award[4][5].

Story for a Black Night
First edition
AuthorClayton Bess
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Set inAfrica
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Company, Lookout Press
Publication date
1982
Media typeprint
ISBN0618494839
Websitehttp://webpages.csus.edu/~boblocke/bess/story.html

Plot

A 40-year-old man tells a story of his childhood, when he was ten, living with his sister, mother and grandmother.[6] When strangers left a baby with smallpox at the house, the family is affected by the disease.[7][8]

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".[8]

There is also a link to the efforts of Rose-Marie Vassallo-Villaneau in her two translations into French. After the English version won the Phoenix Honor Award in 2002 for a book that has endured, she decided that she wanted to do a second translation, this time attempting her own French West African dialect.

Awards

Play

Also from this main page is a link to the 2014 one-act play "PURE HEART in Black of Night" with the author now using his playwright's name Robert Locke.

References
  1. https://dc.ewu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=africana_pubs
  2. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-09-30-vw-17708-story.html
  3. https://www.jstor.org/stable/818823
  4. http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/graphia/pressrelease.shtml
  5. https://www.childlitassn.org/assets/docs/2002huse1.pdf
  6. https://standrewscollege.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/The-Role-of-Faith-and-Ideology-in-African-Fiction.pdf
  7. "Story for a Black Night", Kirkus Reviews, https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/clayton-bess-2/story-for-a-black-night/
  8. 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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