Ollie Miss (Library Alabama Classics)

By George W. Henderson

Ollie Miss is a folk novel of Southern backwoods and rural, poor black life in Alabama's recent past. The novel serves as an important social record of a past society, time, and circumstance that would evolve into an era of social change, namely the civil rights movement. Ollie Miss is also a love story that speaks of personal loneliness and the need for fulfillment in a young black woman, poor and ignorant, and unattached. It is a story of Ollie Miss's personal struggle to "become" a person in her own right, to be independent, and to find some small measure of happiness in life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081730388X
• ISBN13: 9780817303884
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

a good classic worth reading

i decided to read this book after reading about it in black issues book review. I twas a great story and well ahead of its time. Main character is a farm girl who decides that single parenthood is the route for her. It is interesting to note the attitudes then about this issue vs ours today. This book is hard to find and you may have to special order but it is worth it