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Butter: Novellas, Stories, and Fragments Jones, Gayl
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- ISBN
- 9780807030011
- Book Title
- Butter : Novellas, Stories, and Fragments
- Item Length
- 8.8 in
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- African American / General, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
- Item Width
- 5.7 in
- Item Weight
- 12.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 200 Pages
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A wide-ranging collection, including two novellas and ten stories exploring complex identities, from the acclaimed author of Corregidora , The Healing , and Palmares . "Gayl Jones's work represents a watershed in American literature. From a literary standpoint, her form is impeccable . . . and as a Black woman writer, her truth-telling, filled with beauty, tragedy, humor, and incisiveness, is unmatched." --Imani Perry, author of Looking for Lorraine and Breathe Gayl Jones, who was first edited by Toni Morrison, has been described as one of the great literary writers of the 20th century and was recently a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. This new collection of short fiction is only the second in her rich career and one that displays her strengths in the genre in many facets. Opening with two novella-length works, "Butter" and "Sophia," this collection features Jones's legendary talents in a range of settings and styles, from the hyperrealist to the mystical, in intricate multipart stories, in more traditional forms, and even in short fragments. Her narrators are women and men, Black, Brown, Indigenous; her settings are historical and contemporary, in South America, Mexico, and the US; her themes center on complex identities, unorthodox longings and aspirations. She writes about spies, photographers, playground designers, cartoonists, and baristas; about workers and revolutionaries, about environmentalism, feminism, poetry, film, and love, but above all about our multicultural, multiethnic, and multiracial society.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Beacon Press
ISBN-10
0807030015
ISBN-13
9780807030011
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8057253117
Product Key Features
Book Title
Butter : Novellas, Stories, and Fragments
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
African American / General, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
200 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.8 in
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Item Weight
12.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3560.O483b87 2022
Reviews
"This collection of new and revised novellas, fragments, and short stories is as varied and diverse as the settings and the characters who inhabit them. As in her previous works, National Book Award finalist Jones explores expansive themes through the perspectives of richly drawn, fascinating characters who are often out of place and time. . . . There is a dreamlike quality as we enter the minds of these characters that is inviting and effective. Even in the briefest of fragments. . . . the reader is left feeling full and satisfied." -- Booklist , Starred Review
Table of Content
"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
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2022-043207
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