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Can't Quit You, Baby (Contemporary American Fiction)

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Can't Quit You, Baby (Contemporary American Fiction)

â‚¬Å“It is rare when a book this fine enters the world of contemporary American literature.â‚¬Â â‚¬â€œ The Boston Globe

Two women share a Mississippi household for fifteen years, rolling out piecrusts and making conversation. Cornelia is rich, white, and pampered, the mistress of the house, who oversees a seemingly perfect world of smooth surfaces and stubborn silence. Tweet, her housekeeper, is a poor, black, world-weary woman with a ghost-ridden past. As the years go by, Cornelia and Tweet each endure moments of uncertainty and despair; each, in her time of need, is rescued by the other.

In the footsteps of Southern writers like Peter Taylor, Eudora Welty, and Flannery Oâ‚¬Connor, Ellen Douglas celebrates the resiliency of the human spirit in this story of two women bound by transgression and guilt, memory and illusion, gratitude and love.

â‚¬Å“Ellen Douglas is not just one of our best Southern novelists. She is one of our best American novelists.â‚¬Â â‚¬â€œ The New York Times Book Review
Country USA
Brand Penguin
Manufacturer Penguin Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
Color Navy
ReleaseDate 1989-12-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780140121025

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