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Can't Quit You, Baby
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Series: Contemporary American Fiction
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ISBN10: 0140121021
ISBN13: 9780140121025
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Published: Dec 1 1989
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.11 Depth: 7.78
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780140121025
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Published: Dec 1 1989
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.11 Depth: 7.78
Language: English
It is rare when a book this fine enters the world of contemporary American literature. - The Boston Globe
Two women share a Mississippi household for fifteen years, rolling out piecrusts and making conversation. Cornelia is rich, white, and pampered, the mistress of the house, who oversees a seemingly perfect world of smooth surfaces and stubborn silence. Tweet, her housekeeper, is a poor, black, world-weary woman with a ghost-ridden past. As the years go by, Cornelia and Tweet each endure moments of uncertainty and despair; each, in her time of need, is rescued by the other. In the footsteps of Southern writers like Peter Taylor, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O'Connor, Ellen Douglas celebrates the resiliency of the human spirit in this story of two women bound by transgression and guilt, memory and illusion, gratitude and love. Ellen Douglas is not just one of our best Southern novelists. She is one of our best American novelists. - The New York Times Book Review
Two women share a Mississippi household for fifteen years, rolling out piecrusts and making conversation. Cornelia is rich, white, and pampered, the mistress of the house, who oversees a seemingly perfect world of smooth surfaces and stubborn silence. Tweet, her housekeeper, is a poor, black, world-weary woman with a ghost-ridden past. As the years go by, Cornelia and Tweet each endure moments of uncertainty and despair; each, in her time of need, is rescued by the other. In the footsteps of Southern writers like Peter Taylor, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O'Connor, Ellen Douglas celebrates the resiliency of the human spirit in this story of two women bound by transgression and guilt, memory and illusion, gratitude and love. Ellen Douglas is not just one of our best Southern novelists. She is one of our best American novelists. - The New York Times Book Review
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