Black Baby - Hardcover

Boylan, Clare

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241122724 ISBN 13: 9780241122723

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, 1988

Synopsis

Ist edition. very good clean copy. Maroon boards, very good DJ. Light tanning to page edges. Previous owners name on ffep

About this title

About the Author:

Clare Boylan was the author of five novels and three volumes of short stories. Her last novel, ROOM FOR A SINGLE LADY, was published by Little, Brown in September 1997.She died in May 2006.

From Publishers Weekly:

Irish writer Boylan ( Holy Pictures ; Last Resorts ) opens her fourth novel with a biblical epigraph: "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares," and the theme reverberates throughout this engaging tale. In an unnamed Irish city, Dinah, a big-hearted black woman with a lust for life, winds up on the doorstep of Alice, a fearful 67-year-old spinster. As Dinah recounts her mythic (and mythical) past, Alice comes to believe that Dinah is the black baby she "bought" for a missionary donation when she was 12 years old. She welcomes Dinah as her daughter, and Dinah breathes new life into Alice's dull existence. Boylan writes with sureness, aplomb and humor; her metaphoric language crackles with exactitude. She never succumbs to sentimentality or quaintness, even when dealing with subjects as potentially dangerous as brotherly love and the loneliness of old age. Despite the somewhat heavy-handed ironic ending, this is a delightful read.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0241122724
• ISBN 13: 9780241122723
• Binding: Hardcover