Book Descriptions
for A White Romance by Virginia Hamilton
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
As a Black student in a newly integrated high school, Talley Barbour is a perceptive yet dreamy young woman whose white friend Didi shares her passion for running. Inexperienced Talley admires Didi's apparent sophistication and worldliness to such an extent that she wildly romanticizes Didi's relationship with a pathetic white drug addict, until Talley herself gets involved in a depressing, painful relationship with a charismatic, abusive white boy. Exploring the theme of addiction on many levels, Hamilton writes in a Black teen vernacular stream of consciousness. (Age 14 and older)
CCBC Choices 1987 . © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1987. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
A much-honored authro succeeds brilliantly at a new task--telling it like it is at an inner-city magnet school, where black Talley's best friend is white Didi Adair, in love with a drug addict . . . (The characters are) vivid and plausible. . . . Hamilton demonstrates that a popular YA novel can also be a serious literary work of beauty, complexity, and depth.--Kirkus Reviews.
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