The Healing |
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Author:
| Jones, Gayl |
Series title: | Bluestreak Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8070-6325-5 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1999 |
Publisher: | Beacon Press
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Imprint: | Beacon Press |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $23.00 |
Book Description:
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Gayl Jones's special gift is to shape experience and make it seem unshaped. -John Alfred Avant,
The New Republic Gayl Jones's first novel,
Corregidora, won her recognition as a writer whose work was gripping, subtle, and sure. It was praised, along with her second novel,
Eva's Man, by writers and critics from all over the nation- John Updike, Maya Angelou, John Edgar Wideman, and James Baldwin, to name a few. The publication of
The Healing, her...
More DescriptionGayl Jones's special gift is to shape experience and make it seem unshaped. -John Alfred Avant, The New Republic
Gayl Jones's first novel, Corregidora, won her recognition as a writer whose work was gripping, subtle, and sure. It was praised, along with her second novel, Eva's Man, by writers and critics from all over the nation- John Updike, Maya Angelou, John Edgar Wideman, and James Baldwin, to name a few. The publication of The Healing, her first novel in over twenty years, is a literary event.
Harlan Jane Eagleton is a faith healer, traveling by bus to small towns, converting skeptics, restoring minds and bodies. But before that she was a minor rock star's manager, and before that a beautician. She's had a fling with her rock star's ex-husband and an Afro-German horse dealer; along the way she's somehow lost her own husband, a medical anthropologist now traveling with a medicine woman in Africa. Harlan tells her story from the end backwards, drawing us constantly deeper into her world and the mystery at the heart of her tale-the story of her first healing.
The Healing is a lyrical and at times humorous exploration of the struggle to let go of pain, anger, and even love. Slipping seamlessly back through Harlan's memories in a language rich with the textured cadences of the black Southerner, Gayl Jones weaves her story to its dramatic-and unexpected-beginning.