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SISSIE (1963)
This is my favorite of the "early" years. It has more depth
the The Angry Ones and Night Song put together.
It never had a mass paperback distribution and, overseas, has
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SISSIE:
A PLAY IN THREE ACTS. Original typescript, second draft;
with the author's corrections and additions. A dramatization
of the novel for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. |
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SISSIE.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy (1963). First edition,
proof copy.
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novel introduced Ralph Joplin, who also appears in The Junior
Bachelor Society, and is mentioned in !Click Song
(1982) and Jacob's Ladder (1987). His sister, Iris Joplin
Stapleton, was also introduced in Sissie and is mentioned
in The Man Who Cried I Am (1967), The Junior Bachelor
Society (1976), !Click Song, and Jacob's Ladder. |
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SISSIE.
New York: Farrar. Straus, & Cudahy (1963). First edition.
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SISSIE.
Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books/Doubleday (1969). First
paperback edition.
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SISSIE.
Stockholm: Raben & Sjogren (1964). Swedish paperback
edition. |
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JOURNEY
OUT OF ANGER. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode (1965). First
British edition.
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In England the title was changed because "Sissie"
has a specific, negative connotation. It was called
Journey Out of Anger, which isn't bad at all.
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HIMES,
Chester. Typed letter signed, n.d. (1963?) |
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"...I
can say now that your last two books, NIGHT SONG and SISSIE put
you at the very top of all the American Negro writers who have
lived." |
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