{"product_id":"9780571373253","title":"Maud Martha (Faber Editions) by Gwendolyn Brooks","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat, what, am I to do with all of this life? Maud Martha Brown is a little girl growing up on the South Side of 1940s Chicago.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Amidst the crumbling taverns and overgrown yards, she dreams: of New York, romance, her future. She admires dandelions, learns to drink coffee, falls in love, decorates her kitchenette, visits the Jungly Hovel, guts a chicken, buys hats, gives birth. But her lighter-skinned husband has dreams too: of the Foxy Cats Club, other women, war. And the 'scraps of baffled hate' - a certain word from a saleswoman; that visit to the cinema; the cruelty of a department store Santa Claus- are always there .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in 1953 but never published in Britain, Maud Martha is a poetic collage of happenings that forms an extraordinary portrait of an ordinary life: one lived with wisdom, humour, protest, rage, dignity, and joy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Gwendolyn Brooks\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eLiterary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 5 May 2022 by FABER \u0026amp; FABER in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Faber Editions' series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 144 pages\u003cbr\u003e130 x 197 x 14 | 136g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paperback \/ softback","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55455823561080,"sku":"9780571373253","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0409\/6671\/7600\/files\/9780571373253.jpg?v=1771337425","url":"https:\/\/afroribooks.co.uk\/products\/9780571373253","provider":"Afrori Books LTD","version":"1.0","type":"link"}