The Unicorn Woman
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Set in the American South of the early 50s, The Unicorn Woman is a riveting imagining of hope, frustration, and imagination from of the most powerful voices in American literature. Praise for Gayl Jones 'Gayl Jones's work represents a watershed in American literature . . . she stands at the very cutting edge of understanding the modern world' Imani Perry'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 on Palmares 'Her prose is intricate, mesmerizing, and endlessly inventive and subversive' Deesha Philyaw on Palmares'Jones's writing powerfully blends narrative and lyricism . . . Her imagination seems to thrive on outstripping one's expectations' Margo Jefferson on Butter 'A fascinating meditation on Black female creativity . . . Vivid characters shimmer through the pages' Guardian on The Birdcatcher 'Her truth-telling, filled with beauty, tragedy, humour, and incisiveness, is unmatched' IMANI PERRY A richly imaginative and moving new novel from the Pulitzer finalist and acclaimed author of Corregidora.A cook and tractor repairman, Buddy was known as Budweiser to his army pals because he's a wise guy. But underneath that surface, he's a man on a quest: looking for religion, looking for meaning, looking for love.Returning from the Second World War not to a hero's welcome, but to the discrimination of the Jim Crow laws, Buddy stumbles across the Unicorn Woman, a carnival sideshow with a horn growing from her forehead, whose strange beauty he can't forget.As he drifts across the South, from Kentucky to Memphis, Buddy encounters a dazzling array of almost mythic characters: circus barkers, topiary trimmers, landladies who provide shelter and plenty of advice for their all-Black clientele, proto feminists and bigots - dreaming all the while of the unforgettable Unicorn Woman herself.With her inimitable eye for beauty, tragedy and humour, Jones offers a rich, intriguing exploration of the Black imagination in a time of frustration and hope.
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Set in the American South of the early 50s, The Unicorn Woman is a riveting imagining of hope, frustration, and imagination from of the most powerful voices in American literature. Praise for Gayl Jones 'Gayl Jones's work represents a watershed in American literature . . . she stands at the very cutting edge of understanding the modern world' Imani Perry'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 on Palmares 'Her prose is intricate, mesmerizing, and endlessly inventive and subversive' Deesha Philyaw on Palmares'Jones's writing powerfully blends narrative and lyricism . . . Her imagination seems to thrive on outstripping one's expectations' Margo Jefferson on Butter 'A fascinating meditation on Black female creativity . . . Vivid characters shimmer through the pages' Guardian on The Birdcatcher 'Her truth-telling, filled with beauty, tragedy, humour, and incisiveness, is unmatched' IMANI PERRY A richly imaginative and moving new novel from the Pulitzer finalist and acclaimed author of Corregidora.A cook and tractor repairman, Buddy was known as Budweiser to his army pals because he's a wise guy. But underneath that surface, he's a man on a quest: looking for religion, looking for meaning, looking for love.Returning from the Second World War not to a hero's welcome, but to the discrimination of the Jim Crow laws, Buddy stumbles across the Unicorn Woman, a carnival sideshow with a horn growing from her forehead, whose strange beauty he can't forget.As he drifts across the South, from Kentucky to Memphis, Buddy encounters a dazzling array of almost mythic characters: circus barkers, topiary trimmers, landladies who provide shelter and plenty of advice for their all-Black clientele, proto feminists and bigots - dreaming all the while of the unforgettable Unicorn Woman herself.With her inimitable eye for beauty, tragedy and humour, Jones offers a rich, intriguing exploration of the Black imagination in a time of frustration and hope.
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