| Getting Mother's Body Contributor(s): Parks, Suzan-Lori (Author) |
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ISBN: 081296800X ISBN-13: 9780812968002 Publisher: Random House Trade OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2004 Annotation: Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks's wildly original debut novel, Getting Mother's Body, follows pregnant, unmarried Billy Beede and her down-and-out family in 1960s Texas as they search for the storied jewels buried--or were they?--with Billy's fast-running, six-years-dead mother, Willa Mae. Getting Mother's Body is a true spiritual successor to the work of writers such as Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker--but when it comes to bringing hard-luck characters to ingenious, uproarious life, Suzan-Lori Parks shares the stage with no one. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.65 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1960's - Cultural Region - South - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Texas - Topical - Family |
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| Publisher Description: Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks's wildly original debut novel, Getting Mother's Body, follows pregnant, unmarried Billy Beede and her down-and-out family in 1960s Texas as they search for the storied jewels buried--or were they?--with Billy's fast-running, six-years-dead mother, Willa Mae. Getting Mother's Body is a true spiritual successor to the work of writers such as Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker--but when it comes to bringing hard-luck characters to ingenious, uproarious life, Suzan-Lori Parks shares the stage with no one. |