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Can't Quit You, Baby (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780140121025)
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x"It is rare when a book this fine enters the world of contemporary American literature." - The Boston Globe
Two women share a Mississippi household for fifteen years, rolling out piecrusts and making conversation. Cornelia is rich, white, and pampered, the mistress of the house, who oversees a seemingly perfect world of smooth surfaces and stubborn silence. Tweet, her housekeeper, is a poor, black, world-weary woman with a ghost-ridden past. As the years go by, Cornelia and Tweet each endure moments of uncertainty and despair; each, in her time of need, is rescued by the other. In the footsteps of Southern writers like Peter Taylor, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O'Connor, Ellen Douglas celebrates the resiliency of the human spirit in this story of two women bound by transgression and guilt, memory and illusion, gratitude and love. "Ellen Douglas is not just one of our best Southern novelists. She is one of our best American novelists." - The New York Times Book Review
Author: Ellen Douglas
ISBN-10: 0140121021
ISBN-13: 9780140121025
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Language: English
Published: 12/01/1989
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 7.78h x 5.11w x 0.54d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/03/1989
Two women share a Mississippi household for fifteen years, rolling out piecrusts and making conversation. Cornelia is rich, white, and pampered, the mistress of the house, who oversees a seemingly perfect world of smooth surfaces and stubborn silence. Tweet, her housekeeper, is a poor, black, world-weary woman with a ghost-ridden past. As the years go by, Cornelia and Tweet each endure moments of uncertainty and despair; each, in her time of need, is rescued by the other. In the footsteps of Southern writers like Peter Taylor, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O'Connor, Ellen Douglas celebrates the resiliency of the human spirit in this story of two women bound by transgression and guilt, memory and illusion, gratitude and love. "Ellen Douglas is not just one of our best Southern novelists. She is one of our best American novelists." - The New York Times Book Review
Author: Ellen Douglas
ISBN-10: 0140121021
ISBN-13: 9780140121025
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Language: English
Published: 12/01/1989
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 7.78h x 5.11w x 0.54d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/03/1989
By Ellen Douglas
xEllen Douglas, whose real name is Josephine Haxton, was born in Natchez, Mississippi, and published her first novel, A Family's Affairs, in 1962. This first endeavor, as well as her short-story collection Black Cloud, White Cloud were both included in The New York Times Book Review's year's ten best listings. Her fourth novel, Apostles of Light, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1973. Now seventy-eight years old, she makes her home in Jackson, Mississippi.
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