Butter
Autor Gayl Jonesen Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 apr 2023
Finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize and Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize
'Gayl Jones is a literary legend . . . A once-in-a-lifetime work of literature, the kind that changes your understanding of the world' Yara Rodrigues Fowler, Guardian
'A story woven with extraordinary complexity, depth and skill . . . After suffering the author's absence for far too long, we can rejoice at her return' Robert Jones, Jr, The New York Times
'Page after breathtaking page, her prose is intricate, mesmerising and endlessly inventive and subversive' Deesha Philyaw, Author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
Praise for The Birdcatcher
Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award
'A fascinating meditation on Black female creativity . . . Vivid characters shimmer through the pages' Suzy Feay, Guardian
'Jones constructs a novel that is part mystery, part thriller, and wholly captivating . . . Jones is an outstanding writer . . . A shining segment of the American literary canon has been restored' Kate Webb, TLS
'[A novel with] the plush scenery of a travelogue, the misshapen soul of a noir and the anarchic spirit of a trickster tale' The New Yorker (Books of the Year)
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780349016887
ISBN-10: 0349016887
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 138 x 217 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Little Brown Book Group
ISBN-10: 0349016887
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 138 x 217 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Little Brown Book Group
Notă biografică
Gayl Jones was born in Kentucky in 1949. She attended Connecticut College and Brown University and has taught at Wellesley and the University of Michigan. Her books include Corregidora, Eva's Man, The Healing, which was a National Book Award finalist, Palmares, which was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction and longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, and The Birdcatcher, which was also a National Book Award Finalist.
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A dazzling collection of short fiction from Pulitzer and National Book Award Finalist, Gayl Jones
A dazzling collection of short fiction from Pulitzer and National Book Award Finalist, Gayl Jones
Cuprins
“Butter”: A novella
“Sophia”: A novella
“Screen Test”: A fragment
“A Spy Story”
“Garlic Bread”: A novella
“The Costume Maker”
“Worker”: A fragment
“Mirabeau”
“Jigsaw Sandals”
“Shuger’s Wife”
“The Female Angel”
“Horse Race”: A fragment
“Bathtub Gin”: A fragment
“The Historian, the Actress, and the Playwright”
“Ravenna”
“The Horse-Believing Woman”
“The Lost Stories”: Fragments
Jazz People
Abstract Fiction
Cultural Pluralism
Sweet Marsala
Rainbow People
The Elephant, or Totem and Taboo
The Gingerbread Man: An Experiment
Wooley Boatman
Stephan and Pilar
Mrs. Marsipan
Aunt Jane’s Dream
“Sophia”: A novella
“Screen Test”: A fragment
“A Spy Story”
“Garlic Bread”: A novella
“The Costume Maker”
“Worker”: A fragment
“Mirabeau”
“Jigsaw Sandals”
“Shuger’s Wife”
“The Female Angel”
“Horse Race”: A fragment
“Bathtub Gin”: A fragment
“The Historian, the Actress, and the Playwright”
“Ravenna”
“The Horse-Believing Woman”
“The Lost Stories”: Fragments
Jazz People
Abstract Fiction
Cultural Pluralism
Sweet Marsala
Rainbow People
The Elephant, or Totem and Taboo
The Gingerbread Man: An Experiment
Wooley Boatman
Stephan and Pilar
Mrs. Marsipan
Aunt Jane’s Dream