The Healing (Bluestreak Series) - Softcover

Jones, Gayl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807063258 ISBN 13: 9780807063255

Publisher: Beacon Press, 1999

Synopsis

Harlan Jane Eagleton is a faith healer, traveling by bus to small towns, converting skeptics, restoring minds and bodies. But before that she was a minor rock star's manager, and before that a beautician. She's had a fling with her rock star's ex-husband and an Afro-German horse dealer; along the way she's somehow lost her own husband, a medical anthropologist now traveling with a medicine woman in Africa. Harlan tells her story from the end backwards, drawing us constantly deeper into her world and the mystery at the heart of her tale -- the story of her first healing. "The Healing" is a lyrical and at times humorous exploration of the struggle to let go of pain, anger, and even love. Slipping seamlessly back through Harlan's memories in a language rich with the textured cadences of the black Southerner, Gayl Jones weaves her story to its dramatic -- and unexpected -- beginning.

About this title

Review:

Cause for hope, sustenance and even celebration (New York Times)

A major literary event... surprising, romantic and wholly satisfying (Newsweek)

With this wily, witty testimony of good and bad faith, Jones triumphantly re-enters the fray - a trickster, a writer, and, with great fortune, a healer (Boston Globe)

About the Author:

Gayl Jones was born in Kentucky in 1949. She attended Connecticut College and Brown University; she has taught at Wellesley and the University of Michigan. Her books include Corregidora, Eva's Man, White Rat, Song for Anninho, and Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0807063258
• ISBN 13: 9780807063255
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296