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The Wine of Astonishment is the story of the struggle of a Spiritual Baptist community, from the passing of the Prohibition Ordinance in 1917 until the lifting of the ban in 1951. It is told by one of the members of the church. ... The Wine of Astonishment (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
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Characters Discussed ... The Wine of Astonishment (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series) ... Home > The Wine of Astonishment Summary & Study Guide > The Wine of Astonishment...
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The characters in The Wine of Astonishment vary widely in age and social station, in the scopes of their desires and needs. What they all have in common is a sudden ability to see through the veil of prosaic acceptability that enshrouds the sparkling magic at the heart of life.
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A language game. ... Lovelace uses words, in some cases, little more than written symbols to which meaning is attributed, as the expression or communication of the thoughts and feelings of his characters in The Wine of Astonishment.
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The Wine of Astonishment (Paperback) ... Not unlike the characters in Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome and Henry James' The Beast in the Jungle, Martha and Esther Henderson are drawn with an acute sense of perception, courage, and irony which encompasses humanity.
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"Mary Overton's characters have traveled a few million miles of hard road and gathered enough genuine life experience to burn out your eye sockets and curdle your blood. Trust me, she's got the goods." -- Richard Peabody, co-editor "Mondo Barbie" and "Mondo James Dean"
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eCampus.com: The Wine of Astonishment: Mary Overton: 9780964434813: $9.36: : ... THE WINE OF ASTONISHMENT brings us a selection of thirteen stories containing a carnival house of characters: impetuous brides, immigrants struggling in a new land, suburban witches, rough and tumble low-life, a father "drunk on Tolstoy".
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At times, the tone of this slim novel is almost too reserved (one has the feeling these characters never raise their voices above a whisper), but it offers a glimpse of a vanished and charming world, and it does so with an all-but-vanished charm of its own.
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