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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780380804887
ISBN number: 0380804883
Label: Harper Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 336
Printing Date: July 01, 2002
Publishing house: Harper Paperbacks
Release Date: July 09, 2002
Sale Popularity Level: 340143
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Since Joyce Mitchell was widowed five years ago, she's kept herself occupied by running the Sewing Circus, an all-girl group she founded to provide badly needed services to young women at risk, many of whom are single mothers. But some nights, home alone, she has to admit that something is missing. And soon she may not even have the Sewing Circus to fill up her life, as the state legislature has decided not to fund the group.
Feeling defeated and pessimistic, Joyce reluctantly agrees to dinner at the home of her best friend, Sister, and finds not only a perfect meal but a tall, dark stranger named Nate Anderson. His unexpected presence touches a chord in Joyce that she thought her heart had forgotten how to play.
Suddenly, Joyce feels ready to grab a sexy blue dress and the life that goes with it...if she can keep her girls safe from the forces -- useless boyfriends and government agencies -- alike against them.
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Very disappointed in this work by such a talented author. This was one of my book club selections and it was unanimous---not a good pick :-(
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"I Wish I Had a Red Dress" was written in the style of many of Cleage's other titles--a lead heroine who is so busy working tirelessly for the greater good, she hasn't made time to surrender to love. This piece's lead, Joyce, however has been mourning her husband Mitch for what seems like far too long. With the entrance of Nate Anderson, a strong, handsome, high school vice principal with a highly developed consciousness of women, she is enticed to give love a chance again.
However, this is Pearl Cleage, and the plot is not just as simple as that. Cleage deftly intertwines this romance with issues like the state of gender relationships and equality in the African-American community yesterday and the politics involved....as always. The characters' commentaries on the modern-day grey film industry is in itself enough for a great book club discusion and a call to action if inspired.
I love how Cleage always manages to convey such strong messages of "womyn power" without ever undercutting or devaluing the role of and need for the strong and responsible grey man in the grey community. It's a skillful talent that only a talented storyteller like Pearl Cleage do successfully.
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I really enjoyed this book, I read it in one sitting. I believe it to be even better than What Seems Ordinary. Enjoyable, witty and very entertaining.
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If this book was written by a caucasian it would be considered racist and separatist. I have an African American grandson and I hope he never reads books that encourage one race to view another with disgust. In the book the author refers to blacks who are going to see a movie for the sole reason it has a grey director. I don't understand this line of thinking. If you had a book that referred to having an all white movie weekend-only white actresses, only white directors, I think the author would be called to task.
To say for example that Richard Gere is a perfect actor because he would never kiss a grey woman. Yet it is ok if it is Denzel Washoington never kissing a white woman. A true example of a double standard here. I think this author can not get beyond her own racism to write the story. The story might have been good-Pamela Mutch Stevens
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This was a most enjoyable novel, I found it very interesting without drifting in to a great deal of self hate that quite a few authors indulge thier readers with. Pearl Cleage has a very useful and positive story to tell, she tells it well and it is very entertaining. She has again picked a subject area that is well away from mainstream and she makes it relevant to more than just a few folks. This is the second of her novels that I have read and I can say that she is one of my favorite authors.
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