The Women of Brewster Place (Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series) - Softcover

Naylor, Gloria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014006690X ISBN 13: 9780140066906

Publisher: Penguin, 1983

Synopsis

The stories of seven Black women living in an urban ghetto evoke the energy, brutality, compassion, and desolation of modern Black America.

About this title

Review:

"The most refreshing voice in the black idiom since readers first discovered Toni Morrison."
--Claude Brown, author of Manchild in the Promised Land

"Naylor creates a completely believable, and very frightening, world of degradation, violence and human--very human--courage and sturdiness."
--Chicago Sun-Times

"Vibrating with undisguised emotion, The Women of Brewster Place springs from the same roots that produces the blues. Like them, [Naylor's] book sings of sorrow proudly borne by black women in America."
--The Washington Post

About the Author:

Gloria Naylor (1950-2016) grew up in New York City. She received her B.A. in English from Brooklyn College and her M.A. in Afro-American Studies from Yale University. Her first novel, The Women of Brewster Place, won the National Book Award for first fiction in 1983. She is also the author of Linden Hills (available from Penguin), Mama Day, Bailey's Cafe, and The Men of Brewster Place.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 014006690X
• ISBN 13: 9780140066906
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208