In Search of Satisfaction by J California Cooper

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 five collections of short stories, including Homemade Love, which won the 1989 American Book Award, and Some Love, Some Pain, Someday. She is also the author of fifteen plays and has been recognized as Black Playwright of the Year (1978), the James Baldwin Writing Prize (1988), and the American Librarby Association's Literary Lion Award (1988). She is a resident of Gualala, California.

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ISBN 13	9780385467865
ISBN 10	0385467869
Title	In Search of Satisfaction
Author	J California Cooper
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Year published	1995-09-01
Number of pages	368
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