In Search of Satisfaction
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In Search of Satisfaction by J California Cooper
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.
J. California Cooper is the author of the novels Family and In Search of Satisfaction and five collections of stories: Homemade Love, the winner of the 1989 American Book Award; A Piece of Mine; The Future Has a Past; Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime; The Matter Is Life and Some Soul to Keep. She is also the author of seventeen plays and has been honored as Black Playwright of the Year. In 1988, she received the James Baldwin Writing Award and the Literary Lion Award from the American Library Association. She lives in California.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780385467858 |
| ISBN 10 | 0385467850 |
| Title | In Search of Satisfaction |
| Author | J California Cooper |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Doubleday Books |
| Year published | 1994-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 351 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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