The National Book Award-winning novel—and contemporary classic—that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor “[A] shrewd and lyrical portrayal of many of the realities of black life . . . Miss Naylor bravely risks sentimentality and melodrama to write her compassion and outrage large, and she pulls it off triumphantly.” —The New York Times Book Review In her heralded first novel, Gloria Naylor weaves together the stories of seven women living in Brewster Place, a bleak-inner city sanctuary, creating a powerful, moving portrait of the strengths, struggles, and hopes of black women in America. Vulnerable and resilient, openhanded and openhearted, these women forge their lives in a place that in turn threatens and protects—a common prison and a shared home. Naylor renders both loving and painful human experiences with simple eloquence and uncommon intuition. Adapted into a 1989 ABC miniseries starring Oprah Winfrey, The Women of Brewster Place is a touching and unforgettable read.

The Women of Brewster Place: A Novel in Seven Stories (Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series)

Literature & Fiction

NAYLOR, Gloria

United States

Penguin??Books

A powerful look at an affluent black community from Gloria Naylor (1950-2016), the National Book Award-winning author of The Women of Brewster Place A world away from Brewster Place, yet intimately connected to it, lies Linden Hills. With its showcase homes, elegant lawns, and other trappings of Wealth, Linden Hills is not unlike other affluent black communities. But residence in this community is indisputable evidence of "making it." Although no one knows what the precise qualifications are, everyone knows that only certain people get to live there - and that they want to be among them. In a resonant novel that takes as it's model Dante's Inferno, Gloria Naylor reveals the truth about the American dream - that the price of success may very well be on a journey down to the lowest circle of hell. "With Linden Hills, Naylor has constructed a place for herself among the leading contemporary writers of fiction." -Los Angeles Times Book Review

Linden Hills (Contemporary American Fiction Series)

THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE.

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The stories of seven black women living in an urban ghetto evoke the energy, brutality, compassion, and desolation of modern black America.

The Women of Brewster Place

The National Book Award-winning novel--and contemporary classic--that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor, now with a forward by Tayari Jones "[A] shrewd and lyrical portrayal of many of the realities of black life . . . Naylor bravely risks sentimentality and melodrama to write her compassion and outrage large, and she pulls it off triumphantly." --The New York Times Book Review "Brims with inventiveness--and relevance." --NPR's Fresh Air In her heralded first novel, Gloria Naylor weaves together the stories of seven women living in Brewster Place, a bleak-inner city sanctuary, creating a powerful, moving portrait of the strengths, struggles, and hopes of black women in America. Vulnerable and resilient, openhanded and openhearted, these women forge their lives in a place that in turn threatens and protects--a common prison and a shared home. Naylor renders both loving and painful human experiences with simple eloquence and uncommon intuition in this&nbsp;touching and unforgettable read.

The Women of Brewster Place: A Novel in Seven Stories (Penguin Vitae)

Penguin Classics

A motley group of misfits takes on a magical aura at Bailey's Cafe+a7 as each character describes his or her motivations, desires, obsessions, and idiosyncracies. By the author of The Women of Brewster Place. 40,000 first printing. National ad/promo. Tour.

Bailey's Cafe

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

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.

Hodder and Stoughton (1983)

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.

Ticknor & Fields

Lester Tilson and Willie Mason, a pair of hip, latter-day poets, work their way down through Linden Hills, experiencing firsthand the lust, pain, hypocrisy, and valor of the hell-bound upper- and middle-class residents

Linden Hills

METHUEN

Contemporary

The stories of seven Black women living in an urban ghetto evoke the energy, brutality, compassion, and desolation of modern Black America

The Women of Brewster Place: TV Tie-In (unofficial)

Signet

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The Women of Brewster Place: A Novel in Seven Stories (Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series)

Linden Hills (Contemporary American Fiction Series)

The Women of Brewster Place

The Women of Brewster Place: A Novel in Seven Stories (Penguin Vitae)

Bailey's Cafe

THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE.

Linden Hills.

Linden Hills

Bailey's Cafe

The Women of Brewster Place: TV Tie-In (unofficial)