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Sep 29, 2022 · Suzi Feay. Thu 29 Sep 2022 06.00 EDT. A merican author Gayl Jones is powering into her eighth decade with a new novel only a year after the publication of her epic tale of slavery in Brazil,...
Sep 13, 2022 · 3.04. 1,417 ratings207 reviews. Legendary writer Gayl Jones returns with a stunning new novel about Black American artists in exile. Gayl Jones, the novelist Toni Morrison discovered decades ago and Tayari Jones recently called her favorite writer, has been described as one of the great literary writers of the 20th century.
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Sep 13, 2022 · It’s all outrageous enough at the outset to make readers anticipate an absurdist-modernist slapstick farce. Yet the icy, deadpan tone of Amanda’s leisurely narrative voice, though seasoned with sneaky wordplay and impish irony, helps make this a quirkier, more reflective kind of comedy.
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17% Tomatometer 6 Reviews 67% Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings A young woman in Norway flees the Nazi roundup and conceals her identity while working on an occupied farm.
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Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Keith Garlington Keith & the Movies. Despite the sincere feeling behind it, “The Birdcatcher” is simply too hard to buy into. Full Review |...
It ought to be required reading.”. — Publishers Weekly, Starred Review “The remarkable latest release by acclaimed novelist and poet Jones . . . Her prose is captivating, at moments coolly observational and at others profoundly intimate; the delicate balance is the mark of a truly great storyteller.
