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Butter - Novellas, Stories and Fragments by Gayl Jones
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'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, author of THERE ARE MORE THINGS 'Her prose is intricate, mesmerizing, and endlessly inventive and subversive' Deesha Philyaw, author of T ...Show more
Corregidora by Gayl Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The new edition of an American masterpiece, this is the harrowing story of Ursa Corregidora, a blues singer in the early 20th century forced to confront the inherited trauma of slavery. A literary classic that remains vital to our understanding of the past, Corregidora is Gayl Jones's powerful debut ...Show more
Eva's Man by Gayl Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Eva Medina Canada sits in her psychiatric ward, silent. She has murdered her lover and they want to know why. Her memories weave back and forth over encounters with the men in her life - the schoolboy who played doctors and nurses with a dirty popsicle stick; her mother's boyfriend; her cousin; her husb ...Show more
Palmares by Gayl Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The epic rendering of a Black woman's journey through slavery and liberation, set in 17th-century colonial Brazil; the return of a major voice in American literature.First discovered and edited by Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones has been described as one of the great literary writers of the 20th century. Now, ...Show more
Song for Anninho by Gayl Jones
$30.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Bluestreak Ser.
This exquisite book-length poem is set in colonial Brazil, following the destruction of Palmares, the last of seven fugitive slave enclaves beset by the Portuguese. Amid the flight and reenslavement of its inhabitants emerges the love story of Anninho and Almeyda, former African slaves. Song for Anninho ...Show more
The Birdcatcher by Gayl Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'A fascinating meditation on Black female creativity from the author of Corregidora and Palmares . . . Vivid characters shimmer through the pages' Suzi Feay, GUARDIAN 'I am living on the white-washed island of Ibiza with my friend Catherine Shuger, a sculpto ...Show more
The Birdcatcher: FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD by Gayl Jones
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST 2022"Gayl Jones's work represents a watershed in American literature."--Imani PerryLegendary writer Gayl Jones returns with a stunning new novel about Black American artists in exileGayl Jones, the novelist Toni Morrison discovered decades ago and Tayari Jones recently calle ...Show more
The Healing by Gayl Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Gayl Jones's special gift is to shape experience and make it seem unshaped. -John Alfred Avant, The New Republic Gayl Jones's first novel, Corregidora, won her recognition as a writer whose work was gripping, subtle, and sure. It was praised, along with her second novel, Eva's Man, by writers and criti ...Show more
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