Butter by Gayl Jones
A dazzling collection of short fiction from Pulitzer and National Book Award Finalist, Gayl JonesGayl Jones's work represents a watershed in American literatureFrom a literary standpoint, her form is impeccable; from a historical standpoint, she stands at the very cutting edge of understanding the modern world, and as a Black woman writer, her truth-telling, filled with beauty, tragedy, humour, and incisiveness, is unmatched. Jones is a writer's writer, and her influence is found everywhere
-- Imani PerryHer prose is intricate, mesmerizing, and endlessly inventive and subversive -- Deesha Philyaw, author of THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES
A literary giant, and one of my absolute favourite writers -- Tayari Jones, author of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE
Gayl Jones is a literary legend -- Yara Rodrigues Fowler
Jones's writing powerfully blends narrative and lyricism . . . Her imagination seems to thrive on outstripping one's expectations -- Margo Jefferson
Every Jones publication is a major event, but this one is particularly precious. This wide ranging collection of short fiction is only the second by one of our most lauded literary authors. It includes two novella-length works and short stories that are diverse in every meaningful way possible. Jones's settings, which span time and geography, vary as much as the identities of her protagonists, which include women and men, Black, brown, and Indigenous people, artists and spies. The common threads are creativity and devastating insight * Oprah Daily, 'The Books We Cannot Wait to Read in 2023' *
Gayl Jones was born in Kentucky in 1949. She attended Connecticut College and Brown University and has taught at Wellesley and the University of Michigan. Her books include Corregidora (1975), Eva's Man (1976), The Healing (1998), which was a National Book Award finalist, Palmares (2021), which was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction and longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, and The Birdcatcher (2022), which was also a National Book Award Finalist.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780349016894 |
| ISBN 10 | 0349016895 |
| Title | Butter |
| Author | Gayl Jones |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2024-06-13 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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