The Healing - Gayl Jones

The Healing

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
368 Seiten
2019
Virago Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-349-01218-6 (ISBN)
12,45 inkl. MwSt
A humorous yet moving novel of redemption, featuring an original protagonist with an eccentric past and her own brand of wisdom.
THE FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

'A literary giant, and one of my absolute favourite writers' TAYARI JONES

'The novel's richness lies in its entertaining meandering, and the vitality of its spoken rhythms' MAYA JAGGI, GUARDIAN

'A moving affirmation of forgiveness and trust . . . The Healing should be cause for hope, sustenance and even celebration' VALERIE SAYERS, NEW YORK TIMES

Harlan Jane Eagleton is a faith healer, travelling to small towns, converting sceptics, restoring minds and bodies. But before that she was a rock star's manager and race-track gambler. She's had a fling with her rock star's ex-husband and along the way she's somehow lost her own husband - a medical anthropologist now travelling with a medicine woman in Africa. Harlan tells her story from the end backwards, drawing us ever deeper into her world and the mystery at the heart of her tale - the story of her first healing.

Gayl Jones was born in Kentucky in 1949. She attended Connecticut College and Brown University and has taught at Wellesley and the University of Michigan. Her books include Corregidora (1975), Eva's Man (1976), The Healing (1998), which was a National Book Award finalist, Palmares (2021), which was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction and longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, and The Birdcatcher (2022), which was also a National Book Award Finalist.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Virago Modern Classics
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 126 x 196 mm
Gewicht 280 g
Themenwelt Literatur Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-10 0-349-01218-0 / 0349012180
ISBN-13 978-0-349-01218-6 / 9780349012186
Zustand Neuware
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