{"product_id":"the-price-of-a-child-isbn-9780679744672","title":"The Price of a Child","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn intimate, gripping novel of the antebellum Underground Railroad, based on the true story of a valiant Philadelphia freedwoman—a debut novel from the author of the “stunning memoir” \u003ci\u003eBlack Ice \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A stunning achievement ... a deeply engrossing story.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith \u003ci\u003ePrice of a Child—\u003c\/i\u003ethe story of Ginnie Pryor (cook, mistress and servant to a Virginia planter) and her struggle with slavery in 1855—Lorene Cary continues has created a work that elevates the reputation she created with \u003ci\u003eBlack Ice\u003c\/i\u003e, her memoir which won her comparisons to Maya Angelou and Richard Wright. In a novel that examines the price of freedom and the value of a child's life, Cary has created an authentic American heroine—a woman who finds voice for the appalling loss and bitterness of her past, and who creates within herself a new humanity.\"The Price of a Child is a book seared by a sense of mission ... But there is nothing preachy about [Cary's] narrative style. She is a powerful storyteller, frankly sensual, mortally funny, gifted with an ear for the pounce and ragged inconsequentiality of real speech and an eye for the shifts and subterfuges by which ordinary people get by. With The Price of a Child, Lorene Cary has produced a generous, sardonic, full-blooded work of fiction.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Cary's exacting sensual description does more than lend credibility to her portrait of the age. It imparts to her writing an undercurrent of searching perception, and a fastidious element of psychological complexity.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A profoundly moving, evocative work that puts a fully realized human face on the issue of slavery and its consequences. Cary's passionate, intelligent prose and her assured command of historical events as they sweep across individual lives recall Mark Twain, Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy. The Price of a Child marks the emergence of a powerful voice in American fiction.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003eLORENE CARY's new novel \u003ci\u003ePride\u003c\/i\u003e is told   in the voices of four friends—“subtle, idiosyncratic characters...whose personalities   seem utterly, and affectingly, distinctive,” according to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book   Review\u003c\/i\u003e.  It also praises the book’s ability to shift “between the staccato directness   of black slang and the more formal cadences of standard English....”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Price of   A Child\u003c\/i\u003e has been selected as the first city-wide One Book, One Philadelphia\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003echoice.    The novel traces one woman’s escape from slavery and brings alive Philadelphia’s   Underground Railroad history. A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ereviewer called the writer “a powerful   storyteller, frankly sensual, mortally funny, gifted with an ear for the pounce [of]   real speech,” and praised the novel\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eas “a generous, sardonic, full-blooded work of   fiction.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Cary’s first book, published by Knopf in   1991, was \u003ci\u003eBlack Ice,\u003c\/i\u003e a memoir of her years first as a black female student, and then   teacher, at St. Paul’s, an exclusive New England boarding school.  Arnold Rampersad   has dubbed it “...probably the most beautifully written and moving African-American   autobiographical narrative since Maya Angelou’s celebrated \u003ci\u003eI Know Why The Caged Bird   Sings.\u003c\/i\u003e” \u003ci\u003e Black Ice\u003c\/i\u003e was chosen as a Notable Book for 1992 by the American Library   Association.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eLorene Cary was graduated from St. Paul’s School in 1974 and received   B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978.  She won a Thouron   Fellowship for British-U.S. student exchange and studied at Sussex University. She   has received Doctorates in Humane Letters from Colby College in Maine, Keene State   College in New Hampshire, and Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 1998 Lorene   Cary founded Art Sanctuary, a non-profit lecture and performance series that brings   black thinkers and artists to speak and perform at the Church of the Advocate, a   National Historic Landmark Building in North Philadelphia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Currently a lecturer   in creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a 1998 recipient   of the Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, Cary has lectured throughout the   U.S. She began writing as an apprentice at \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e in 1980, then worked as an Associate   Editor at \u003ci\u003eTV Guide\u003c\/i\u003e, freelanced for such\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003epublications as \u003ci\u003eEssence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Visions\u003c\/i\u003e,   \u003ci\u003eMirabella\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and served as Contributing   Editor\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003efor \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e in 1993.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 2002, Cary received the Women’s Way Agent of Change   Award; in 2001 the Advocate Community Development Corporation’s Award for Urban Excellence;   in 2000, a Philadelphia Historical Society Founder’s Medal for History in Culture;   in 1999, the American Red Cross Spectrum Rising Star Award for community service;   and in 1995, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts Fellowship. She serves on the usage Panel   for \u003ci\u003eThe American Heritage Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e and the Union Benevolent Association board.   Cary is a member of PEN and the Author’s Guild. She lives in Philadelphia with her   husband, the Rev. Robert C. Smith, and daughters Laura and Zoë.Author of Black Ice","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303751274725,"sku":"NP9780679744672","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679744672.jpg?v=1767741059","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-price-of-a-child-isbn-9780679744672","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}