'The greatest experiment of Pretty Pearl is the character of Pearl in all her changing lights.The novel's great success is also Pearl' -Nina Mikkelsen Burns, T. It is a culmination of all the work she had done and all the things she had tried to do in each book. Pretty Pearl expresses her desire to always want to experiment and to challenge herself. This is an fascinating preteen novel about 12 year old Buhlaire who lives with her two aunts, Aunt Digna, and Aunt Babe, in a Water House in Plain City. This book is Hamilton's ode to and a celebration of parallel cultural mythology and traditions. When Pretty Pearl comes down from the God home of Mount Kenya to live among real people, she discovers the diaspora of the slave trade and forgets all her brother god’s warnings about being true to the goddess within her. The family moved to Hamilton two years later where she was educated, graduating from. Plain City Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. New York: Macmillan.Ī fantasy, part myth, part legend and folklore. She was born on July 10, 1932, to Pete and Myrtle Coloff in Butte, Montana. Her Gothic narrative suggests that, for African Americans, the confrontation with their collective cultural past is almost intolerably painful but also essential in order to face the future and grow.This novel powerfully affirms the values of the African-American family and community symbolized in the church, which has played such a profound role in the road to freedom.' 'Hamilton's most explicit venture into Gothicism.gloriously imbued with specific Gothic effects. Winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award (“The Edgar”) from Mystery Writers of America 1969 Thomas Small and his family move to the great and forbidding House of Dies Drear, a home that was on the Underground Railroad, and trouble begins. Virginia Hamilton Plain City ISBN 13: 9780780746787 Plain City Virginia Hamilton 3.41 avg rating (76 ratings by Goodreads) Softcover ISBN 10: 0780746783ISBN 13: 9780780746787 Publisher: Perfection Learning This specific ISBN edition is currently not available.

Plain City by Virginia Hamilton