Ebook {Epub PDF} All-Bright Court by Connie Rose Porter

Connie Porter is the author of All-Bright Court, Imani All Mine, and the Addy books in the Pleasant Company's American Girls series, which has sold more than 3 million copies. Porter was a fellow at Bread Loaf and was named a regional winner in Granta's Best Young American Novelist contest/5(14). Connie Rose Porter Connie Porter is the author of All-Bright Court, Imani All Mine, and the Addy books in the Pleasant Company's American Girls series, which has sold more than 3 million copies. Porter was a fellow at Bread Loaf and was named a regional winner in .  · All-Bright Court is a housing development in Buffalo, New York, originally built for the steel mill employees. It eventually became a run-down slum where Black employees and their families were then allowed to live. Porter reveals just enough about her characters, that this reader felt confident in guessing their true motivations/5.

Connie. Rose Porter. Connie Porter is the author of All-Bright Court, Imani All Mine, and the Addy books in the Pleasant Company's American Girls series, which has sold more than 3 million copies. Porter was a fellow at Bread Loaf and was named a regional winner in Granta's Best Young American Novelist contest. Word Count: Connie Porter's All-Bright Court consists of a number of stories about people, most of them African American, who live in the area of Lackawanna, New York, near the steel plant. Rate this book. Clear rating. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. A Heart Full of Hope: An Addy Classic Volume 2. by. Connie Rose Porter, Juliana Kolesova (Illustrations), Michael Dworkin (Illustrations) avg rating — 88 ratings — published — 4 editions.

Despite its name, All-Bright Court is a dreary and crumbling tenement resting beside a steel plant outside Buffalo, N. Connie Rose Porter, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $ (p). The outcome of those dreams is the stuff of Connie Porter's acclaimed debut novel. Through twenty years, as the promises of the s give way to hardship and upheaval, Porter chronicles the loves, hopes, troubles, triumphs, and ambitions of Mississippi-born Sam and Mary Kate Taylor and their neighbors. As the late s fade the Court's bright. With unsentimental compassion, Connie Porter's remarkable debut novel traces the lives of the Court's inhabitants over twenty years, as the bright promise of the s kindles and then dims the dreams of black America. At the heart of this collective portrait of a community is the Taylor family: Sam, Mary Kate, and their five children.