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Getting Mother's Body
Contributor(s): Parks, Suzan-Lori (Author)

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ISBN: 081296800X     ISBN-13: 9780812968002
Publisher: Random House Trade
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2004
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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.
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Family Life - General
- Fiction | Psychological
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" L (0.65 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1960's
- Cultural Region - South
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Geographic Orientation - Texas
- Topical - Family
Features: Ikids, Price on Product
Review Citations: BookPage 04/01/2004 pg. 10
New York Times 04/25/2004 pg. 24
 
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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.
 
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