| Singing in the Comeback Choir Contributor(s): Campbell, Bebe Moore (Author) |
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ISBN: 0425227820 ISBN-13: 9780425227824 Publisher: Berkley Books OUR PRICE: $20.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2009 Annotation: Bebe Moore Campbell, acclaimed as one of the "most important African-American writers of this century" ("Washington Post Book World"), now presents an unforgettable tale about second chances. Successful Los Angeles TV producer Maxine McCoy faces a whole new set of challenges when she learns she must return to her home in a working-class neighborhood of Philadelphia to care for the grandmother who had reared her. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | African American - Women |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" (0.70 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - California - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Pennsylvania |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 75516 Reading Level: 4.8 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 16.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A woman's journey back home takes her life in a new direction in this inspirational New York Times bestseller from the author of Brothers and Sisters. Maxine McCoy's life is going just fine. She's the executive producer of a popular talk show, married to the man she loves, and pregnant with their child. But her security is shattered when Maxine gets a call from the caretaker of her 76-year-old grandmother, who raised the orphaned Maxine. She's summoned back to the Philadelphia neighborhood of her childhood that, like her grandmother, has seen better days. Maxine is set to move her grandmother out of the neighborhood, but the independent Liddy isn't quite ready to leave. She has plans of her own. Bebe Moore Campbell demonstrates why Entertainment Weekly called her "a master when it comes to telling a story" in this tale of hope and redemption and making the impossible come true. "If this is a fair world, Bebe Moore Campbell will be remembered as the most important African-American novelist of this century...Her writing is clean and clear; her emotions run hot, but her most important characteristic is uncompromising intelligence coupled with a perfectionist's eye for detail."--The Washington Post Book World |