Homemade Love
A Short Story Collection
Published on 27. August 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-250-85773-6 (ISBN)
Description
In this American Book Award winning short story collection, J. California Cooper brings to life thirteen moving short stories that explore the threads and nuances of all kinds of love-whether romantic, familial or friendship. Written in the literary folk tradition associated most often with Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, Homemade Love draws a vivid picture of Black characters finding love in the most unlikely of places.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
St Martin's Press
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
281 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-250-85773-6 (9781250857736)
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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. She has been honored as the Black Playwright of the Year, and has also received the James Baldwin Writing Award and the Literary Lion Award from the American Library Association. Ms. Cooper lived in California.