Can't Quit You, Baby
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"It is rare when a book this fine enters the world of contemporary American literature." - The Boston Globe Two women share a Mississippi household for fifteen years, rolling out piecrusts and making conversation. Cornelia is rich, white, and pampered, the mistress of the house, who oversees a seemingly perfect world of smooth surfaces and stubborn silence. Tweet, her housekeeper, is a poor, black, world-weary woman with a ghost-ridden past. As the years go by, Cornelia and Tweet each endure moments of uncertainty and despair; each, in her time of need, is rescued by the other. In the footsteps of Southern writers like Peter Taylor, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O'Connor, Ellen Douglas celebrates the resiliency of the human spirit in this story of two women bound by transgression and guilt, memory and illusion, gratitude and love. "Ellen Douglas is not just one of our best Southern novelists. She is one of our best American novelists." - The New York Times Book Review
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0140121021
ISBN13:9780140121025
Release Date:December 1989
Publisher:Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Length:288 Pages
Weight:0.44 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
This is the perfect book group selection. A wonderful book that provides so much to talk about. We all loved it!
beautiful, moving, deep
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
I found this book startling on so many levels - the emotional honesty about the characters, the intellectual honesty about race, the sheer fascination of Tweet's description of her youth and Cornelia's struggle to come back from alienation, the extraordinary vividness of the prose. The writer takes a big risk in making her own role explicit, but the pay-off at the end is tremendous. Just a great book.
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