Gloria Naylor, Author Harcourt Brace $19.95 (229p) ISBN 978-0-15-110450-5
A self-professed curmudgeon, the Bailey, whose eatery gives Naylor's ( The Women of Brewster Place ) powerful, evocative new novel its title, serves up lousy coffee and greasy food at that crossroads of the world, Brooklyn in 1948. Along with his...
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Gloria Naylor, Author Penguin Books $15 (320p) ISBN 978-0-14-008829-8
Cynically and bitterly, Naylor (The Women of Brewster Place writes of a group of middle- and upper-middle-class blacks who have assimilated the values of the white world. She shows her contempt for them by using two young men as counterpointsthe two
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Gloria Naylor, Author Vintage Books USA $14.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-679-74821-2
Naylor's lyrical novel, a BOMC and QPB selection in cloth, explores the lives of denizens of the eponymous eatery, capturing life in New York in the era following WW II. (Sept.)
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Gloria Naylor, Author Ticknor & Fields $17.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-89919-716-6
The beauty of Naylor's prose is its plainness, and the secret power of her third novel is that she does not simply tell a story but brings you face to face with human beings living through the complexity, pain and mystery of real life. But Mama Day...
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Gloria Naylor, Author Hyperion Books $22.45 (173p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6421-8
Fifteen years after publishing The Women of Brewster Place, Naylor revisits that pocket of an unnamed modern city and animates it with a fresh, compelling cast. Brewster Place is populated almost exclusively by African Americans driven there by...
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