|
|
|
|
| |
 |
|
Some People, Some Other Place |
| |
J. California Cooper
ISBN: 0385496834
Format: Paperback, 384pp
Pub. Date: April 2006
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
BBP Sales Rank: 102,091
List Price: $13.95 |
|
|
|
|
click to enlarge |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
J. California Cooper returns with a sweeping novel about love and heartbreak,
perseverance and luck, telling her tale with an insight and grace that
reaffirms Alice Walker's words of praise for her previous works: "Her style is
deceptively simple and direct and the vale of tears in which her characters
reside is never so deep that a rich chuckle at a person's foolishness cannot be
heard."
In her acclaimed novels and short stories, J. California Cooper has created
moving portraits of people striving to make their way in a hard, often unjust
world. Whether it explores the blatant racial and class biases of
nineteenth-century America or the more subtle forms of discrimination that
exist today, "It is the universality of her themes that has made Ms. Cooper's
work popular," as the Dallas Morning News has written.
Some People, Some Other Place is Cooper's biggest, most far-reaching novel to
date. A multigenerational tale, it is set in a town called "Place," on a street
named "Dream Street." In the words of the novel's narrator, "the block surely
had about it a feeling of long accumulation of history, of life, of many lives
intertwined." As she chronicles the interlocking lives of the residents of
Dream Street, Cooper places the stories of the individuals and their families
within the wider context of America's social and economic history. We meet the
narrator's great grandparents, who left the poverty of the Deep South in 1895
and made their way to a farm in Oklahoma; her grandparents, who continued the
northward journey with their eyes on the promised jobs of the industrial
Midwest but were forced to settle without reaching their goal; and her mother,
whofinishes the journey and discovers that life at 903 Dream Street carries new
burdens as well as rewards. The neighbors on the block are people of all
colors, all striving to overcome personal troubles and disappointments, and all
holding fast to their dreams of a better life.
|
| |
| People who bought this book also bought: |
|
| |
. Loving Donovan Bernice L. McFadden
. Skyscraper Zane
. My Woman His Wife Anna J
. In Search of Satisfaction J. California Cooper
. Bliss Fiona Zedde |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
