Through the Ivory Gate: A novel
A debut novel by the 1987 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, about an artist on a journey of self-discovery—navigating a family secret, racism, and the conflict between marriage and career.
“Skillfully evokes the mood of a decade when social change seemed not only possible but imminent.” —Washington Post Book World
When a woman returns to her Midwestern hometown as an artist-in-residence to teach puppetry to schoolchildren, her homecoming also means grappling with artistic ambition, memories of rejected love, and shocking truths about her family.
- Author(s)
- Rita Dove
- Publication Year
- 1993
- Publication date
- October 5, 1993
- Pages
- 288
- Binding
- Print length
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Condition
- New
- ISBN
- 9780679742401
- Dimensions
- 5.19 × 0.65 × 8.0 in
- Weight
- 0.5 lb
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