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The Healing: Bluestreak, cartea 3

Bahni Turpin Autor Gayl Jones
en Digital – 22 oct 2018 – vârsta de la 18 ani
A National Book Award finalist--the story of Harlan Jane Eagleton's transformation from a minor rock star's manager to a traveling faith healer is a lyrical and, at times, humorous exploration of the struggle to let go of pain, anger, and even love.love.
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ISBN-13: 9781974919109
ISBN-10: 1974919102
Dimensiuni: 140 x 124 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.09 kg
Editura: Dreamscape Media
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Notă biografică

Gayl Jones was born in Kentucky in 1949. She attended Connecticut College and Brown University; she has taught at Wellesley and the University of Michigan. Her books include Corregidora, Eva's Man, White Rat, Song for Anninho, and Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature.

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THE FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

'A literary giant, and one of my absolute favourite writers' TAYARI JONES

'The novel's richness lies in its entertaining meandering, and the vitality of its spoken rhythms' MAYA JAGGI, GUARDIAN

'A moving affirmation of forgiveness and trust . . . The Healing should be cause for hope, sustenance and even celebration' VALERIE SAYERS, NEW YORK TIMES

Harlan Jane Eagleton is a faith healer, travelling to small towns, converting sceptics, restoring minds and bodies. But before that she was a rock star's manager and race-track gambler. She's had a fling with her rock star's ex-husband and along the way she's somehow lost her own husband - a medical anthropologist now travelling with a medicine woman in Africa. Harlan tells her story from the end backwards, drawing us ever deeper into her world and the mystery at the heart of her tale - the story of her first healing.

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An American writer with a powerful sense of vital inheritance, of history
An important American writer . . . The Healing examines precisely what its title announces: healing from silence, from physical attacks and treachery, from spiritual and cultural isolation, from the pain of old-fashioned, aching, bluesy love . . . It is also a very funny book . . . A moving affirmation of forgiveness and trust . . . The Healing should be cause for hope, sustenance and even celebration
Compelled by the southern speech and taut, sparring dialogue of the early fiction, [The Healing] has a witty, savvy, sometimes cynical edge . . . As Harlan trawls black culture, Jones slyly combines folksy, vernacular wisdom with discursive flights. Into this fluid pastiche she mixes pop culture - Oprah, Denzel, Tina Turner - with allusions to Chaucer, Henry James, Ralph Ellison, Ishmael Reed . . . the novel's richness lies in its entertaining meandering, and the vitality of its spoken rhythms
Gayl Jones's work remains essential and vital; I will be rereading her catalogue for the rest of my life
One of the most distinguished African American women of letters, Jones offers her first novel to be published in twenty years. It is gripping, beautiful and well worth the wait
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

'An important American writer . . . The Healing examines precisely what its title announces: healing from silence, from physical attacks and treachery, from spiritual and cultural isolation, from the pain of old-fashioned, aching, bluesy love . . . It is also a very funny book' Valerie Sayers, New York Times

'Gayl Jones's work remains essential and vital; I will be rereading her catalogue for the rest of my life' Kima Jones, Nylon


Harlan Jane Eagleton is a faith healer, travelling to small towns, converting sceptics, restoring minds and bodies. But before that she was a rock star's manager, and before that a beautician. She's had a fling with her rock star's ex-husband and a rich African-German racehorse dealer; along the way she's somehow lost her own husband, a medical anthropologist now traveling with a medicine woman in Africa. Harlan tells her story from the end backwards, drawing us constantly deeper into her world and the mystery at the heart of her tale - the story of her first healing.