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Informationen zum Autor Gayl Jones was born in Kentucky in 1949. She attended Connecticut College and Brown University; she has taught at Wellesley and the University of Michigan. Her books include Corregidora! Eva's Man! White Rat! Song for Anninho! and Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature . Klappentext Gayl Jones's special gift is to shape experience and make it seem unshaped. -John Alfred Avant! The New Republic Gayl Jones's first novel! Corregidora ! won her recognition as a writer whose work was gripping! subtle! and sure. It was praised! along with her second novel! Eva's Man ! by writers and critics from all over the nation: John Updike! Maya Angelou! John Edgar Wideman! and James Baldwin! to name a few. The publication of The Healing ! her first novel in over twenty years! is a literary event. Harlan Jane Eagleton is a faith healer! traveling by bus to small towns! converting skeptics! restoring minds and bodies. But before that she was a minor rock star's manager! and before that a beautician. She's had a fling with her rock star's ex-husband and an Afro-German horse dealer; along the way she's somehow lost her own husband! a medical anthropologist now traveling with a medicine woman in Africa. Harlan tells her story from the end backwards! drawing us constantly deeper into her world and the mystery at the heart of her tale-the story of her first healing. The Healing is a lyrical and at times humorous exploration of the struggle to let go of pain! anger! and even love. Slipping seamlessly back through Harlan's memories in a language rich with the textured cadences of the black Southerner! Gayl Jones weaves her story to its dramatic-and unexpected-beginning. Zusammenfassung Gayl Jones's special gift is to shape experience and make it seem unshaped. -John Alfred Avant! The New Republic Gayl Jones's first novel! Corregidora ! won her recognition as a writer whose work was gripping! subtle! and sure. It was praised! along with her second novel! Eva's Man ! by writers and critics from all over the nation: John Updike! Maya Angelou! John Edgar Wideman! and James Baldwin! to name a few. The publication of The Healing ! her first novel in over twenty years! is a literary event. Harlan Jane Eagleton is a faith healer! traveling by bus to small towns! converting skeptics! restoring minds and bodies. But before that she was a minor rock star's manager! and before that a beautician. She's had a fling with her rock star's ex-husband and an Afro-German horse dealer; along the way she's somehow lost her own husband! a medical anthropologist now traveling with a medicine woman in Africa. Harlan tells her story from the end backwards! drawing us constantly deeper into her world and the mystery at the heart of her tale-the story of her first healing. The Healing is a lyrical and at times humorous exploration of the struggle to let go of pain! anger! and even love. Slipping seamlessly back through Harlan's memories in a language rich with the textured cadences of the black Southerner! Gayl Jones weaves her story to its dramatic-and unexpected-beginning. ...
