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Book Review

All-Bright Court (1991)

Connie Porter
Reviewed by L.S. Klepp | Oct 30, 1992
EW's GRADE
A-

Details Writer: Connie Porter; Genres: Drama, Fiction; Publisher: HarperPerennial Library

So what if she steals a little from Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place, Connie Porter writes with heart. This first novel, All-Birhgt Court, which covers two decades in the lives of a group of tenement dwellers, will remind you of what Alice Walker was like before she became a gynecologist. The uplift here does not seem manufactured. A-

Originally posted Oct 30, 1992 Published in issue #142 Oct 30, 1992 Order article reprints

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