Elbow Room
A beautiful collection that explores blacks and whites today, Elbow Room is alive with warmth and humor. Bold and very real, these 12 stories explore a world many find difficult to define.
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- Macmillan Reference USA
- Year
- 1987
- ISBN-13
- 9780449241356
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topics
- Race relationsAmerican identityShort stories
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for FictionWonMajor(1978)
- National Book Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(1978)
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