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The Women of Brewster Place - by Gloria Naylor (Paperback)

The Women of Brewster Place - by  Gloria Naylor (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The women of Brewster Place are "hard-edged, soft-centered, brutally demanding, and easily pleased". In their stories, Gloria Naylor has created a community of women that has touched thousands of readers across the country. Now the basis for a November 1988, ABC-TV, three-hour movie, starring Oprah Winfrey.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The National Book Award-winning novel--and contemporary classic--that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor, now with a forward by Tayari Jones</b> <p/> <b>"[A] shrewd and lyrical portrayal of many of the realities of black life . . . Naylor bravely risks sentimentality and melodrama to write her compassion and outrage large, and she pulls it off triumphantly." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b> <p/><b>"Brims with inventiveness--and relevance." <b>--NPR's <i>Fresh Air</i></b></b> <p/> In her heralded first novel, Gloria Naylor weaves together the stories of seven women living in Brewster Place, a bleak-inner city sanctuary, creating a powerful, moving portrait of the strengths, struggles, and hopes of black women in America. Vulnerable and resilient, openhanded and openhearted, these women forge their lives in a place that in turn threatens and protects--a common prison and a shared home. Naylor renders both loving and painful human experiences with simple eloquence and uncommon intuition in this touching and unforgettable read.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>[Naylor's] ardent inventiveness as a storyteller and the complex individuality she gives to each of her seven main characters make the novel so much more than a contrived literary assembly line. . . . Deftly, Naylor gathers all these individual stories into one climactic narrative that works through the reader via a word-by-word sense of horror and outrage. . . . <i>The Women of Brewster Place</i>, born of the details of a particular time and community, also turns out to be one of those, yes, universal stories depicting how we, the fallen, seek grace."<br><b><b>--</b>Maureen Corrigan, NPR's<i> Fresh Air</i></b> <p/>"The most refreshing voice in the black idiom since readers first discovered Toni Morrison." <br><b>--Claude Brown, author of</b> <i><b>Manchild in the Promised Land</b> <p/> </i>"Naylor creates a completely believable, and very frightening, world of degradation, violence and human--very human--courage and sturdiness." <br><b>--<i>Chicago Sun-Times</i></b> <p/> "Vibrating with undisguised emotion, <i>The Women of Brewster Place</i> springs from the same roots that produces the blues. Like them, [Naylor's] book sings of sorrow proudly borne by black women in America." <br><b>--<i>The Washington Post</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Gloria Naylor</b> (1950-2016) grew up in New York City. She received her BA in English from Brooklyn College and her MA in Afro-American Studies from Yale University. Her first novel, <i>The Women of Brewster Place</i>, won the National Book Award for first fiction in 1983. She is also the author of <i>Linden Hills </i>(available from Penguin), <i>Mama Day</i>, <i>Bailey's Cafe</i>, and <i>The Men of Brewster Place</i>. <p/><b>Tayari Jones </b>(foreword) is the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>An American Marriage</i>, which was an Oprah's Book Club Selection and a favorite of Barack Obama, as well as <i>Silver Sparrow</i>, <i>The Untelling</i>, and <i>Leaving Atlanta</i>. She is a professor-at-large at Cornell University and a professor of creative writing at Emory University.

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