
Butter
Novellas, Stories, and Fragments
Gayl Jones(Author)
Beacon Press
Published on 6. February 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-0-8070-9336-8 (ISBN)
Description
This new collection of short fiction is only the second in the author's rich career and one that displays her strengths in the genre in many facets. Opening with two novella-length works, "Butter" and "Sophia," this collection features Jones's legendary talents in a range of settings and styles, from the hyperrealist to the mystical, in intricate multipart stories, in more traditional forms, and even in short fragments. Her narrators are women and men, Black, Brown, Indigenous; her settings are historical and contemporary, in South America, Mexico, and the US; her themes center on complex identities, unorthodox longings and aspirations. She writes about spies, photographers, playground designers, cartoonists, and baristas; about workers and revolutionaries, about environmentalism, feminism, poetry, film, and love, but above all about our multicultural, multiethnic, and multiracial society.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Boston, MA
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 134 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
231 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8070-9336-8 (9780807093368)
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E-Book
04/2023
Beacon Press
€13.49
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Person
Gayl Jones