Getting Mother's Body by Suzan-Lori Parks

Getting Mother's Body by Suzan-Lori Parks

Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks's wildly original debut novel, Getting Mother's Body, follows pregnant, unmarried Billy Beede and her down-and-out family in 1960s Texas as they search for the storied jewels buried--or were they?--with Billy's fast-running, six-years-dead mother, Willa Mae. Getting Mother's Body is a true spiritual successor to the work of writers such as Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker--but when it comes to bringing hard-luck characters to ingenious, uproarious life, Suzan-Lori Parks shares the stage with no one.

Suzan-Lori Parks won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2002 for her play Topdog/Underdog, making her the first African-American woman to do so. Father Returns Home from the Battles (Parts 1, 2, and 3), In the Blood, Venus, The Death of the Last Black Man in the World, Fucking A, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, and The America Play are some of her other works. Her 365 Days/365 Plays was performed in over 700 theaters around the world in 2007. Parks is a MacArthur Fellow and the Public Theater's Master Writing Chair. She won the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama in 2018.

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ISBN 13	9780812968002
ISBN 10	081296800X
Title	Getting Mother's Body
Author	Suzan-Lori Parks
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2004-04-13
Number of pages	288
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