Linden Hills. - Hardcover

Naylor, Gloria.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 034036033X ISBN 13: 9780340360330

Publisher: TICKNOR & FIELDS. NY 1985, 1985

Synopsis

Lester Tilson and Willie Mason, a pair of hip, latter-day poets, work their way down through Linden Hills, experiencing firsthand the lust, pain, hypocrisy, and valor of the hell-bound upper- and middle-class residents

About this title

About the Author:

Gloria Naylor (1950-2016) grew up in New York City. She received her B.A. in English from Brooklyn College and her M.A. in Afro-American Studies from Yale University. Her first novel, The Women of Brewster Place, won the National Book Award for first fiction in 1983. She is also the author of Linden Hills (available from Penguin), Mama Day, Bailey's Cafe, and The Men of Brewster Place.

Review:

"The most refreshing voice in the black idiom since readers first discovered Toni Morrison." -Claude Brown, author of Manchild in the Promised Land

"One is quickly beguiled . . . so gracefully to Miss Naylor fuse together the epic and the naturalistic, the magical and the real." -The New York Times
 
"With Linden Hills, Naylor has constructed a place for herself among the leading contemporary writers of fiction." -Los Angeles Times Book Review
 
"Every page contains a brilliant insight, a fine description, some petty and human, some grandiloquent." -Chicago Tribune

About this edition

• Publisher: TICKNOR & FIELDS. NY 1985
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 034036033X
• ISBN 13: 9780340360330
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304