The Healing
$35.79
- Paperback
296 pages
- Release Date
2 December 2019
Summary
Gayl Jones’s special gift is to shape experience and make it seem unshaped. -John Alfred Avant, The New RepublicGayl Jones’s first novel, Corregidora, won her recognition as a writer whose work was gripping, subtle, and sure. It was praised, along with her second novel, Eva’s Man, by writers and critics from all over the nation- John Updike, Maya Angelou, John Edgar Wideman, and James Baldwin, to name a few. The publication of The Healing, her first novel in over twenty years, is a literary e…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780807080931 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0807080934 |
| Author: | Gayl Jones |
| Publisher: | Beacon Press |
| Imprint: | Beacon Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Release Date: | 2 December 2019 |
| Weight: | 366g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm |
| Series: | Celebrating Black Women Writers |
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Critics Review
“The Best American Novelist Whose Name You May Not Know”—Calvin Baker, The Atlantic “An important American writer … The Healing examines precisely what its title announces: healing from silence, from physical attacks and treachery, from spiritual and cultural isolation, from the pain of old-fashioned, aching, bluesy love … It is also a very funny book … A moving affirmation of forgiveness and trust … The Healing should be cause for hope, sustenance and even celebration” — Valerie Sayers The New York Times
About The Author
Gayl Jones
Gayl Jones was born in Kentucky in 1949. She attended Connecticut College and Brown University; she has taught at Wellesley and the University of Michigan. Her books include Corregidora, Eva’s Man, White Rat, Song for Anninho, and Liberating Voices- Oral Tradition in African American Literature.
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