Can't Quit You, Baby (Contemporary American Fiction) - Softcover

Douglas, Ellen

 
9780140121025: Can't Quit You, Baby (Contemporary American Fiction)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140121021 ISBN 13: 9780140121025
Verlag: Penguin, 1989

Inhaltsangabe

“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

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ellen Douglas, whose real name is Josephine Haxton, was born in Natchez, Mississippi, and published her first novel, A Family's Affairs, in 1962. This first endeavor, as well as her short-story collection Black Cloud, White Cloud were both included in The New York Times Book Review's year's ten best listings. Her fourth novel, Apostles of Light, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1973. Now seventy-eight years old, she makes her home in Jackson, Mississippi.

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Verlag
Penguin
Erscheinungsdatum
1989
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140121021
ISBN 13 
9780140121025
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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