Some Soul to Keep
A Short Story Collection
Published on 11. June 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-250-85760-6 (ISBN)
Description
With a transparent clarity and exuberant energy, award-winning author J. California Cooper brings to life the sweetness and bitterness of the lives of five Southern Black women experiencing loss. In her signature folk tale style, Cooper captures stories of families and fate, of love and marriage, of death and the triumph of the human spirit.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
St Martin's Press
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
348 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-250-85760-6 (9781250857606)
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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.