Homemade Love - Hardcover
J. California Cooper is the author of novels, six collections of stories, and seventeen plays. Her book Homemade Love was the winner of the American Book Award in 1989, and she has been honored as the Black Playwright of the Year. She has also received the James Baldwin Writing Award and the Literary Lion Award from the American Library Association. She lived in California until her death in 2014.
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"Cooper's work reminds us of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston." -Alice Walker
"Cooper knows how to 'talk' her stories to us, as though each of them is told by a kindly and concerned friend. The sound of them is lovely, memorable, haunting." --San Francisco Chronicle
"Gutsy and familiar...Cooper's power comes from sticking to her instinct, which is to tell a story, plain and simple." --The Washington Post
"Ms. Cooper is as down-home as Zora Neale Hurston, thank you, and blooming into as skilled a storyteller. Cooper's characters are the folk heroes of black culture.... Tales of triumph that give you reason to keep reading." --Essence
"These stories are jazzy, clubby, folksy, small towny, populist, perky, and if you don't like them, you must be in an absolutely unshakeable bad mood...." --Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times
"Both men and women are treated with such bemused love that these tales of passions gone astray are transformed into celebrations of life." --MS.
J. California Cooper is the author of two novels, four collections of stories, and seventeen plays. Homemade Love was the winner of the American Book Award in 1989, and she has been honored as the Black Playwright of the Year. She has also received the James Baldwin Writing Award and the Literary Lion Award from the American Library Association. Ms. Cooper lives in California.
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- PublisherWomen"s Press, Limited, The
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0704350173
- ISBN 13 9780704350175
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages192
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Book Description Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 'You can stand stark raving still and life will happen to you!.Life is like trying to swim to the top of the rain sometime'. J. California Cooper's characters spend their lives trying to learn to swim to the top. They strive, survive and age in their attempts. They swim by creating their own Homemade Love. These stories are full of wonder at the mystery of life, the hardness of fate, and the whimsical humour the Lord indulges in. Seller Inventory # 009149
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