The Women of Brewster Place
$34.73
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
30 June 1983
Summary
Once the home of poor Irish and Italian immigrants, Brewster Place, a rotting tenement on a dead-end street, now shelters black families. This novel portrays the courage, the fear, and the anguish of some of the women there who hold their families together, trying to make a home. Among them are: Mattie Michael, the matriarch who loses her son to prison; Etta Mae Johnson who tries to trade the ‘high life’ for marriage with a local preacher; Kiswana Browne who leaves her middle-class family to …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140066906 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014006690X |
| Author: | Gloria Naylor |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 1983 |
| Weight: | 160g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 127mm x 193mm |
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Critics Review
“The most refreshing voice in the black idiom since readers first discovered Toni Morrison.” –Claude Brown, author of Manchild in the Promised Land “Naylor creates a completely believable, and very frightening, world of degradation, violence and human–very human–courage and sturdiness.” –Chicago Sun-Times
“Vibrating with undisguised emotion, The Women of Brewster Place springs from the same roots that produces the blues. Like them, [Naylor’s] book sings of sorrow proudly borne by black women in America.” –The Washington Post
About The Author
Gloria Naylor
Gloria Naylor is the author of The Women of Brewster Place, which won the National Book Award. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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