Gorilla, My Love (Vintage Contemporaries)

Gorilla, My Love (Vintage Contemporaries)

Toni Cade Bambara
$15.00
Publication Date: June 30th, 1992
Publisher:
Vintage
ISBN:
9780679738985
Pages:
192
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Description

Fifteen unforgettable short stories from an essential author of African American fiction gives us compelling portraits of a wide range of unforgettable characters, from sassy children to cunning old men, from uptown New York to rural North Carolina.

"Bambara grabs you by the throat ... she dazzles, she charms." —Chicago Daily News

A young girl suffers her first betrayal. A widow flirts with an elderly blind man against the wishes of her grown-up children. A neighborhood loan shark teaches a white social worker a lesson in responsibility. And there is more. Sharing the world of Toni Cade Bambara's "straight-up fiction" is a stunning experience.

About the Author

TONI CADE BAMBARA is the author of two short story collections, Gorilla My Loveand Seabirds Are Still Alive, and a novel, The Salt Eaters. She has also edited The Black Woman and Tales and Short Stories for Black Folks. Her works have appeared in various periodicals and have been translated into several languages. She died in 1995.

Praise for Gorilla, My Love (Vintage Contemporaries)

"Ms. Bambara grabs you by the throat...she dazzles, she charms." —Chicago Daily News

"Among the best portraits of black life to have appeared in some time." —Saturday Review

"Bambara presents situations that build like improvisations on a melody....As drawn with spirit and subtlety. [Her characters] are-even in their defeats-a pleasure to watch." —Newsweek

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