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A Patch of Blue is story about a blind girl in the 60's, who lives with her prostitute mother and alcoholic grandfather. She meets a black man in the park and falls in love with him. She is racist, due to the times and what she has been taught by her mother and grandfather.
Sep 9, 2021 · A Patch of Blue. Hardcover – September 9, 2021. by Elizabeth Kata (Author) 4.3 91 ratings. See all formats and editions. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Elizabeth Kata’s novel A Patch of Blue (originally titled Be Ready with Bells and Drums) (1961) was adapted into a film version in 1965, which was nominated for several Academy Awards, winning Best Supporting Actress for Shelley Winters’s performance as the main character.
A Patch of Blue is a 1965 American drama film directed by Guy Green about the friendship between an educated black man (played by Sidney Poitier) and an illiterate, blind, white 18-year-old girl (played by Elizabeth Hartman in her film debut), and the problems that plague their friendship in a racially divided America.
A Patch of Blue. Elizabeth Kata. Warner Books, 1988 - Blind - 142 pages. With over 1.5 million copies in print, here is a novel of great power and beauty in which a blind white girl and a black...
Books. A Patch of Blue. Elizabeth Kata. Penguin, 1963 - Fiction - 171 pages. Abused and neglected by her prostitute mother, scarred by the memory of her murderous father, blind,...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
