Butter : novellas, stories, and fragments / Gayl Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Gayl, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiculturalism--Fiction.

Multiculturalism.

Identity (Psychology)--Fiction.

Identity (Psychology).

Genre:

Short stories.

Fiction.

Novellas.

Physical Description:

192 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2023]

Summary:

"A wide-ranging collection, including two novellas and ten stories exploring complex identities, from the acclaimed author of Corregidora, The Healing, and Palmares"-- Provided by publisher.

This new collection of short fiction is only the second in the author's rich career and one that displays her strengths in the genre in many facets. Opening with two novella-length works, "Butter" and "Sophia," this collection features Jones's legendary talents in a range of settings and styles, from the hyperrealist to the mystical, in intricate multipart stories, in more traditional forms, and even in short fragments. Her narrators are women and men, Black, Brown, Indigenous; her settings are historical and contemporary, in South America, Mexico, and the US; her themes center on complex identities, unorthodox longings and aspirations. She writes about spies, photographers, playground designers, cartoonists, and baristas; about workers and revolutionaries, about environmentalism, feminism, poetry, film, and love, but above all about our multicultural, multiethnic, and multiracial society.

Contents:

Butter: a novella

Sophia: a novella

Screen test: a fragment

A spy story

Garlic bread: a novella

The costume maker

Worker: a fragment

Mirabeau

Jigsaw sandals

Shuger's wife

The female angel

Horse race: a fragment

Bathtub gin: a fragment

The historian, the actress, and the playwright

Ravenna

The horse-believing woman

The lost stories: fragments. Jazz people ; Abstract fiction ; Cultural pluralism ; Sweet Marsala ; Rainbow people ; The elephant, or, Totem and taboo ; The gingerbread man: an experiment ; Wooley boatman ; Stephan and Pilar ; Mrs. Marsipan ; Aunt Jane's dream.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.

Other Format:

Online version: Jones, Gayl. Butter

ISBN:

9780807030011

0807030015

OCLC:

1344160816