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Butter: Novellas, Stories, and Fragments
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ISBN10: 080709336X
ISBN13: 9780807093368
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: Feb 6 2024
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.26 Depth: 8.31
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780807093368
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: Feb 6 2024
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.26 Depth: 8.31
Language: English
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 hyper-realist to the mystical, in intricate multi-part 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.
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