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The matter is life / J. California Cooper.
LIBRA - Special PS3553.O5874 M37 1992
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cooper, J. California.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Fiction.
- African Americans.
- Short stories.
- African American women--Fiction.
- African American women.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 227 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Anchor Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Anchor Books, 1992.
- Summary:
- American Book Award-winner J. California Cooper spins insight and irony into modern-day parables about simple people who love too little and too late, and about those who toil and struggle against a difficult and often hostile environment. This fourth collection of Cooper's unforgettable stories is alternately charming, disturbing, poignant, and humorous.
- Contents:
- The big day
- How, why to get rich
- Evergreen grass
- Friends, anyone?
- Vanity
- I told him!
- No lie
- The Doras.
- Notes:
- Reprint: Originally published: Doubleday, 1991.
- ISBN:
- 038541174X
- 9780385411745
- OCLC:
- 233000281
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