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Jessie and Jesus ; and, Cousin Claire / Raymond Andrews.

LIBRA Rare PS3551.N452 J4 1991 Banks copy
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Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Genre:
  • Fiction.
Penn Provenance:
  • Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
Physical Description:
4 unnumbered pages, 202 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Other Title:
  • Jessie and Jesus.
  • Cousin Claire.
Place of Publication:
Atlanta : Peachtree Publishers, Ltd., 1991.
Summary:
Jessie and Claire make their unique mark on the rural South. Look out! Here come Jessie Mitchell Blackshear and her equally dangerous double, Cousin Claire. Sexy, smart, and sassy, these powerful African-American women survive and thrive in the male-dominated world of the rural South. Thoroughly different and equally dedicated to getting their way, Jessie and Claire will entertain and amaze you--if they don't swallow you whole! In these two hilarious and hair-raising novellas, Raymond Andrews has painted portraits of two very different black women whose means and modes of manipulation are mirror-opposites of each other, but whose motivations are frighteningly similar. The results--and their impact on those around them--are equally profound. Welcome to the darkly comic world of Jessie & Jesus & Cousin Claire, vividly presented in the rambunctious and rollicking prose of a master storyteller and inspired seer into human nature. Published shortly before Andrews's death in 1991, Jessie & Jesus & Cousin Claire won a 1992 American Book Award.
Contents:
  • Jessie and Jesus
  • Cousin Claire.
Notes:
  • "Illustrated by Benny Andrews"--Dust jacket.
  • "Design by Candace J. magee. Composition by Kathryn D. Mothershed."--T.p. verso.
Local Notes:
  • Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
  • Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.
Contains:
Andrews, Raymond. Cousin Claire. 1991.
ISBN:
1561450324
OCLC:
23766627

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