Corregidora

The book is plotted like a beautiful, tear-filled song

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Gayl Jones, Jones Gayl
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.01.2025
• EAN: 9780349019574
• ISBN: 978-0-349-01957-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 196 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Virago Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), 20th Century, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Feminism & feminist theory, Classic fiction, Relating to African American people, Feminism and feminist theory, FICTION / African American & Black / Women, FICTION / African American & Black / Urban & Street Lit