Anatural evolution from the earlier, much-acclaimed collection In Love & Trouble, these fourteen provocative and often humorous stories show women oppressed but not defeated.These are hopeful stories about love, lust, fame, and cultural thievery, the delight of new lovers, and the rediscovery of old friends, affirmed even across self-imposed color lines.
'A romance of the last 500,000 years' from the Pulitzer prize winning author of THE COLOR PURPLE. A visionary cast of characters weave together their past and present in a brilliantly intricate tapestry of tales.It is the story of the dispossessed and displaced, of peoples whose history is ancient and whose future is yet to come. Here we meet Lissie, a woman of many pasts; Arveyda the great guitarist and his Latin American wife who has had to flee her homeland; Suwelo, the history teacher, and his former wife Fanny who has fallen in love with spirits. Hovering tantalisingly above their stories are Miss Celie and Shug, the beloved characters from THE COLOUR PURPLE.
Nel 1995 l'autore, un giovane giornalista cinico e rampante, vede intervistato in TV un suo vecchio professore, che ha avuto una notevole influenza sulla sua vita. Decide allora di andare a trovare l'anziano professore, ormai gravemente malato. Per quattordici settimane, ogni martedì, tornano a incontrarsi e a parlarsi. Nei loro incontri settimanali discutono della famiglia, del perdono, della vecchiaia, della morte, ma soprattutto dell'amore.
1978 - Lower East Side, New York. 15-year-old Finn Earl's mother, Liz, is a masseuse with a taste for cocaine. When Liz's habit forces them to flee the city, they find protection under the wing of one of her clients, ageing billionaire Mr Osborne.
As children, Roy and Alison Smith were so close their mother called them by one name: Alroy. But on a cool summer morning when she was fifteen, Alison woke to learn that Roy, three years older, was dead. While her Catholic parents wrestled with their faith and their grief, Alison made the mourners coffee, went to school to be taught by the nuns, and - being all her parents had left - set about coping. But underneath run her private rituals of mourning, her increasing idiosyncrasies, unnoticed by her parents trying to heal themselves and teachers anxious to be kind. Until suddenly, Alison begins to realize something's wrong. This is a book about grief, but it's also a love story, about Alison's love of her brother, of her childhood, and finally of life.
Compiling five short stories originally written between 1959 and 1964, "Slow Learner "showcases Thomas Pynchon's writing before the publication of his first novel "V. "The stories compiled here are "The Small Rain," "Low-lands," "Entropy," "Under the Rose," and "The Secret Integration," along with an introduction by Pynchon himself.
Die Kraft der weiblichen Urinstinkte
In de onderlinge strijd tussen arme en rijke bewoners van een dorpje in Oklahoma tekenen zich de minder flatteuze en karikaturale trekjes van de Amerikaanse volksaard af.
Een Indiase vrouw, die weduwe wordt als ze 17 jaar is, probeert zich te handhaven in de Verenigde Staten.
De sociale onrust op Jamaica in oktober 1968, gezien door de ogen van een schooljongen.
Autobiografisch getint relaas van een Amerikaanse puber die opgroeit in een mijnwerkersstadje in West-Virginia in de jaren vijftig.
“Having this treasure of a book available again for new and more readers is not only necessary, it is imperative.” —Toni Morrison Expanding the canon of African American literature, alongside Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God , Alice Walker’s The Color Purple , and Toni Morrison’s Beloved , Sherley Anne Williams’ critically acclaimed and unforgettable Dessa Rose is a novel of two powerfully conceived female protagonists forging a vital friendship in the face of racial divides in the antebellum South.
