By Gloria Naylor Mama Day (1st First Edition) [Hardcover]

Literature & Fiction

GLORIA NAYLOR

United States

Ticknor & Fields

On the island of Willow Springs, off the Georgia coast, the powers of healer Mama Day are tested by her great niece, Cocoa, a stubbornly emancipated woman endangered by the island's darker forces. A powerful generational saga at once tender and suspenseful, overflowing with magic and common sense.

Mama Day

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking Education & Reference

Vintage

The Women of Brewster Place

PRENTICE/HALL

The Situation Of The Story

Joyce Carol Oates

Henry, James

DORIS LESSING

Shirley Jackson

Katherine Anne Porter

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Zora Neale Hurston

Sarah Orne Jewett

RAYMOND CARVER

Estela Portillo Trambley

JOHN UPDIKE

Louise Erdrich

JOHN CHEEVER

EUDORA WELTY

BERNARD MALAMUD

Bharati, Mukherjee

Anna Lee Walters

John Edgar Wideman

Diana Young

George P. Garrett

Ann Beattie

Toni Cade Bambara

Willa, Cather

Lee K. Abbott

Conrad, Aiken

Charles, Johnson

flannery-o-connor

Anton Pavloviç Çehov

Franz, Kafka

David Herbert, Lawrence

James, Joyce

Edgar-Allan-Poe

Edith, Wharton

Virginia, Woolf

Nathaniel, Hawthorne

Amy, Tan

Mark, Twain

alice-munro

HERMAN, MELVILLE

Stephen, Crane

Elizabeth Spencer

tillie-olsen

William Goyen

TRUMAN CAPOTE

William, Faulkner

Ernest, Hemingway

Ellen Wilbur

REGINALD McKNlGHT

Maria Cruz Viramontes de Marin

Allen Barnett

Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press

13432--Gloria Naylor gives lie to the notion that authors and readers must be bound by their self-stereotypes and that persons of diverse racial or economic backgrounds cannot understand each other. This book is beautiful. Yes, the majority of characters are black women from the ghetto. But, like true literature, this book isn't really about so select a group. The experiences and feelings of these women are transcendent-transcendent because they are "real" persons first and black women second. F

The Women of Brewster Place: A Novel in Seven Stories

Viking/Penguin

Vintage Books

The women of Brewster Place are "hard-edged, soft-centered, brutally demanding, and easily pleased". In their stories, Gloria Naylor has created a community of women that has touched thousands of readers across the country. Now the basis for a November 1988, ABC-TV, three-hour movie, starring Oprah Winfrey.

Women of Brewster Place (Modern Fiction)

METHUEN

<p>Featuring Bebe Moore Campbell, Eric Jerome Dickey, Toni Morrison, Stanley Crouch, Julie Dash, Trey Ellis, E. Lynn Harris, Gloria Naylor, Clarence Major, Jamaica Kincaid and others.</p>

Black Satin (Contemporary Erotic Fiction by Writers of African Origin)

TONI MORRISON

Eric Jerome Dickey

Trey Ellis

E. Lynn Harris

BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL

Clarence Major

Stanley Crouch

Julie Dash

Berkley Books,New York

Bailey's Cafe

Bailey's Cafe, on a street it shares with a brothel and a pawnbrokers, is only there if you need it. Everyone has a song to sing and the regulars are singing the blues. By the author of "The Women of Brewster Place", which won the American Book Award for First Fiction in 1983.

Contemporary

Minerva

Linden Hills is an exclusive private residential estate in America. Intended as a symbol of black equality, it is in fact an infernal place, and the layers of hypocrisy and self-destruction which are its foundation become exposed. The author's other novels include "The Women of Brewster Place".

Linden Hills

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