| The Salt Eaters Contributor(s): Bambara, Toni Cade (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679740767 ISBN-13: 9780679740766 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1992 Annotation: Set in Claybourne, a small town somewhere in the South, THE SALT EATERS is the story of a community of black faith healers who, searching for the healing properties of salt, witness an event that will change their lives forever. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | African American - Historical - Fiction | Political |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 91050902 |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.26" W x 7.98" (0.50 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Georgia - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A community of Black faith healers witness an event that will change their lives forever in this hard-nosed, wise, funny novel (Los Angeles Times). Set in a fictional city in the American South, the novel also inhabits the nonlinear, sacred space and sacred time of traditional African religion" (The New York Times Book Review). Though they all united in their search for the healing properties of salt, some of them are centered, some are off-balance; some are frightened, and some are daring. From the men who live off welfare women to the mud mothers who carry their children in their hides, the novel brilliantly explores the narcissistic aspect of despair and the tremendous responsibility that comes with physical, spiritual, and mental well-being. |