Ebook {Epub PDF} The Women of Brewster Place: A Novel in Seven Stories by Gloria Naylor

 · The Women of Brewster Place: A Novel in Seven Stories Penguin contemporary American fiction series: Author: Gloria Naylor: Contributor: Tayari Jones: Publisher: Penguin, ISBN: , 4/5(10). Gloria Naylor weaves together the stories of seven women living in Brewster Place, a bleak-inner city sanctuary, creating a powerful, moving portrait of the strengths, struggles, and hopes of black women in America. Vulnerable and resilient, openhanded and openhearted, these women forge their lives in a place that in turn threatens and protects. Buy a cheap copy of The Women of Brewster Place book by Gloria Naylor. The National Book Award-winning novel that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor () In her heralded first novel, Gloria Naylor weaves together the Free Shipping on all orders over $

Despite Gloria Naylor's shrewd and lyrical portrayal of many of the realities of black life (her scene of services in the Canaan Baptist Church is brilliant), 'The Women of Brewster Place' isn't realistic fiction - it is mythic. Nothing supernatural happens in it, yet its vivid, earthy characters (especially Mattie) seem constantly on the verge. In her heralded first novel, Gloria Naylor weaves together the stories of seven women living in Brewster Place, a bleak-inner city sanctuary, creating a powerful, moving portrait of the strengths, struggles, and hopes of black women in America. Vulnerable and resilient, openhanded and openhearted, these women forge their lives in a place that. The Novels of Gloria Naylor - Mama Day, Linden Hills, and Bailey's Cafe Three lyrical and unforgettable novels from the National Book Award-winning author of The Women of Brewster Place. After winning both the National Book Award and the American Book Award for her now iconic debut novel, The Women of Brewster Place, which was later made.

--NPR's Fresh Air In her heralded first novel, Gloria Naylor weaves together the stories of seven women living in Brewster Place, a bleak-inner city sanctuary, creating a powerful, moving portrait of the strengths, struggles, and hopes of black women in America. This novel, a winner of the American Book Award in , focuses on the stories of several women who have come to live on the dead-end street, Brewster Place ("the bastard child of several clandestine meetings between the alderman of the sixth district and the managing director of Unico Realty Company" (p. 1), and the interweaving of their lives. Mattie Michael has lost her home to her much loved, but errant son, but becomes the backbone of this community of women; Etta Mae Johnson has loved. The Women of Brewster Place: A Novel in Seven Stories (Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series) by Gloria Naylor. Once the home of poor Irish and Italian immigrants, Brewster Place, a rotting tenement on a dead-end street, now shelters black families. This novel portrays the courage, the fear, and the anguish of some of the women there who hold their families together, trying to make a home.