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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Praise for Palmares A 2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 'Gayl Jones is a literary legend . . . A once-in-a-lifetime work of literature, the kind that changes your understanding of the world' Yara Rodrigues Fowler, Guardian 'A story woven with extraordinary complexity, depth and skill . . . After suffering the author's absence for far too long, we can rejoice at her return' Robert Jones, Jr, The New York Times 'Page after breathtaking page, her prose is intricate, mesmerising and endlessly inventive and subversive' Deesha Philyaw, Author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies Praise for The Birdcatcher A 2022 National Book Award Finalist 'A fascinating meditation on Black female creativity . . . Vivid characters shimmer through the pages' Suzy Feay, Guardian 'Jones constructs a novel that is part mystery, part thriller, and wholly captivating . . . Jones is an outstanding writer . . . A shining segment of the American literary canon has been restored' Kate Webb, TLS '[A novel with] the plush scenery of a travelogue, the misshapen soul of a noir and the anarchic spirit of a trickster tale' The New Yorker (Books of the Year) Vorwort A dazzling collection of short fiction from Pulitzer and National Book Award Finalist, Gayl Jones Zusammenfassung A dazzling collection of short fiction from Pulitzer and National Book Award Finalist, Gayl Jones...
