In Search of Satisfaction - Couverture rigide

Cooper, J. California

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0385467850 ISBN 13 : 9780385467858

Editeur : Doubleday, 1994

Synopsis

Book by Cooper J California

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The folk flavor of her storytelling has earned her  constant comparison to Langston Hughes and Zora  Neale Hurston, but through four collections of  short stories and two novels, J. California Cooper  has proven that hers is a wholly original talent  --one that embraces readers in an ever-widening  circle from one book to the next. With In  Search Of Satisfaction, Cooper  gracefully portrays men and women, some good and others  wickedly twisted, caught in their individual  thickets of want and need. On a once-grand plantation  in Yoville, "a legal town-ship founded by the  very rich for their own personal use," a  freed slave named Josephus fathers two daughters,  Ruth and Yinyang, by two different women. His  desire, to give Yinyang and himself money and  opportunities, oozes through the family like an elixir,  melding with the equally strong yearnings of  Yoville's other residents, whose tastes don't  complement their neighbors'. What Josephus buries in his  life affects generations to come. J. California  Cooper's unfettered view of sin, forgiveness, and  redemption gives In Search Of  Satisfaction a singular richness that belies its  universal themes.

Revue de presse :

"Marvelously textured and layered with voices that weave in and out of each other but never collide." --Los Angeles Times

"Cooper's...style is deceptively simple and  direct, and the vale of tears in which her  characters reside is never so deep that a rich chuckle  at a foolish person's foolishness cannot be heard." --Alice Walker

"An old-fashioned morality tale that quickly engages the reader in the lives of a large cast of unforgettable characters." --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"The wicked and righteous reap their just rewards in Cooper's calamitous, unabashedly preachy family epic." --The Plain Dealer

"Cooper writes  about small-town life with a verve that nearly bursts off the page."
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Doubleday
• Date d'édition: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0385467850
• ISBN 13: 9780385467858
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1