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Selected by The Atlantic as one of THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS. (“You have to read them.”)
One of The New Yorker’s “The Best Books We Read in 2020” picks
“Jones’s great achievement is to reckon with both history and interiority, and to collapse the boundary between them.”—Anna Wiener, The New Yorker
The new edition of an American masterpiece, this is the harrowing story of Ursa Corregidora, a blues singer in the early 20th century forced to confront the inherited trauma of slavery.
A literary classic that remains vital to our understanding of the past, Corregidora is Gayl Jones’s powerful debut novel, examining womanhood, sexuality, and the psychological residue of slavery. Jones masterfully tells the story of Ursa, a Kentucky blues singer, who, in the wake of a tragic loss, confronts her maternal history and the legacy of Corregidora, the Brazilian slave master who fathered both her mother and grandmother. Consumed and haunted by her hatred of the man who irrevocably shaped her life and the lives of her family, Ursa Corregidora must come to terms with a past that is never too distant from the present.
Selected, edited, and first edited by Toni Morrison, it is “the most brutally honest and painful revelation of what has occurred, and is occurring, in the souls of Black men and women,” (James Baldwin) and “a tale as American as Mount Rushmore and as murky as the Florida swamps.” (Maya Angelou).
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Pulitzer Finalist National Book Award Finalist National Book Award Finalist Pulitzer Finalist American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement
Publisher : Beacon Press
Publication date : January 29, 2019
Edition : Reprint
Language : English
Print length : 184 pages
ISBN-10 : 0807061093
ISBN-13 : 978-0807061091
Item Weight : 8 ounces
Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches
Part of series : Celebrating Black Women Writers
Best Sellers Rank: #539,372 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #279 in Black & African American Historical Fiction (Books) #3,675 in Black & African American Women’s Fiction (Books) #5,854 in Women’s Domestic Life Fiction
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