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Through the Ivory Gate by Rit Dove, Rita Dove - WordSea

Through the Ivory Gate cover

Through the Ivory Gate

by Rit Dove, Rita Dove

A debut novel by the 1987 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. When a woman returns to her Midwestern hometown as an artist-in-residence to teach puppetry to schoolchildren, her homecoming also means dealing with memories of racism, rejected love--and truths about her family. Author readings.

"From the Trade Paperback edition.

Literature & FictionContemporary

RELEASED1997

PUBLISHERRandom House Value Publishing

LANGUAGEEN

Rita Dove

Rita DoveAmerican poet and author

American poet and author

Through the Ivory Gate cover

Through the Ivory Gate

by Rit Dove, Rita Dove

A debut novel by the 1987 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. When a woman returns to her Midwestern hometown as an artist-in-residence to teach puppetry to schoolchildren, her homecoming also means dealing with memories of racism, rejected love--and truths about her family. Author readings.

"From the Trade Paperback edition.

Literature & FictionContemporary

RELEASED1997

PUBLISHERRandom House Value Publishing

LANGUAGEEN

Rita Dove

Rita DoveAmerican poet and author

American poet and author

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