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Bailey's Cafe / Gloria Naylor.
LIBRA - Special PS3564.A895 B3 1993b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Naylor, Gloria.
- Series:
- Vintage contemporaries
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Restaurants--Fiction.
- Restaurants.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Didactic fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 229 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First Vintage contemporaries edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 1993.
- Summary:
- "Welcome to Bailey's Cafe, where the foof may not be much but the ambience is graced by myth and magic. The cafe is home to Sadie, the lady-like alcoholic with a mania for cleanliness; to Sweet Esther, who caters to unspeakable appetites in a nearby "boarding house," taking payment only in white roses; and to Mariam, the Ethiopian child who may be the bearer of a miracle." -- Back cover.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in hardcover by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, Orlando Florida, in 1992"--T.p. verso.
- ISBN:
- 0679748210
- 9780679748212
- OCLC:
- 27897780
- Online:
- Publisher description
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