Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works
Tillie Olsen
Celebrated author Tillie Olsen's writing is as relevant today as it was a century ago. This collection contains some of her best-known works, including several nonfiction pieces, early journalism pieces, and short stories. The four stories that make up "Tell Me a Riddle" are incredibly moving and have become classics. Olsen's stories provide a new standard of representation for women and the poor. The collection includes an introduction by Olsen's granddaughter and a foreword by her daughter, providing a personal and generational context for Olsen's work.
Publish Date
2013-09-01T00:00:00.000Z
2013-09-01T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads Rating
3.91
ISBN
9780803245778
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2021-03-10T19:24:00.000Z
When I first started Acumen, I considered giving this newly birthed organization a different name: Immersion. I’d been taken by the Tillie Olsen quote from her remarkable book of short stories Tell me a Riddle, and loved the idea of “the long Baptism into the seas of humankind.” – source