I wish I had a red dress : a novel / Pearl Cleage.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cleage, Pearl

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Fiction.

African American women.

Women social workers--Fiction.

Women social workers.

Middle-aged women--Fiction.

Middle-aged women.

Michigan--Fiction.

Michigan.

Widows--Fiction.

Widows.

Genre:

Love stories.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 323 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2001.

Summary:

A poignant new novel of love and risk features the same characters of the bestselling "What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day". This time, Ava's big sister, Joyce, will shine when she senses the unmistakable hint of romance on the wind.

Contents:

Part One. Joyce; Trust me; Stepping on angels; Black ice; The weary traveler; The tree baby; Permanent shit list; A con man's dream; Another kind of test; All I can do; Better than that; Busted; First thought, best thought; This Denzel thing; Count on it; When Junior started trippin'; War song; The designated man

Par Two. Time is money; So far, so good; The nearest starfish; Here we go again; The last thing on my mind; Best of all possible worlds; Getting better all the time; Same woods, same water; For us, by us; Just friends; Acting up; Nasty stuff; A candle for Nettie; Stages; Sexual healing; A trick questions; Bad memories; The best man; A gentleman caller; One of those nights; This is a dream; A payin' customer; Undeniably different; A yes-or-no question; Kind of blue; In my mind's eye; The problem with surrender; The enforcer; The best kind of we; On our way; They can hear me now; Femme fatale; Ass-kickin' clothes; One of those calls

Part Three. Fighting for air; All emergencies; Lifetime achievement; A dangerous combination; By any means necessary; The specificity of snowflakes; No chance; Love slave; Guarding Queens; But he was; that red dress; Imagine.

Notes:

"Designed by Nicola Ferguson."

"Jacket design Nadine Badalaty. Jacket illustration by Sergio Baradat."

Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards - Fiction, Winner, 2002

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0380977338 :

OCLC:

45636870