J. California Cooper, Author . Doubleday $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-385-49682-7
An unborn child narrates Cooper's earthy fourth novel, which, through a minute exploration of the lives and loves of the residents of Dream Street in the town of Place, aims to unveil the vastness of human experience. At the heart of the novel...
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J. California Cooper, Author . Doubleday $23.95 (209p) ISBN 978-0-385-51133-9
An acclaimed novelist (Some People, Some Other Place
), playwright (Strangers
) and short story writer (Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime
), Cooper checks in with a collection of stories that shine a spotlight on the lives of invisible women. Her...
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J. California Cooper, Author . Doubleday $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-51134-6
With another multigenerational, wonderfully crafted Midwest ensemble cast, Cooper (Wild Stars Seeking Midnight Suns
) presents the town of Wideland, Okla., through the eyes of folksy nonagenarian Hattie B. Brown. This community sentinel, though...
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J. California Cooper, Author Anchor Books $13.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-385-41174-5
Cooper's exuberant talent, displayed so effectively in Family , is somewhat muted in this uneven collection of eight deceptively simple slice-of-life parables. Author tour. (Oct.)
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J. California Cooper, Author Anchor Books $14.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-46786-5
Cooper details a family saga in which two half-sisters attempt to come to grips with their father's legacy. (Oct.)
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J. California Cooper, Author Anchor Books $14 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-46788-9
Cooper's latest collection of life-affirming stories focuses on women who are attempting to balance their lives. (Oct.)
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J. California Cooper, Author Doubleday Books $21 (231p) ISBN 978-0-385-41171-4
In this beautifuly textured first novel by the author of the acclaimed short story collection Homemade Love , the history of one slave family becomes symbolic for all slaves and slaveholders. Clora, the granddaughter of a slave and a slaveholder,...
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J. California Cooper, Author Doubleday Books $18 (227p) ISBN 978-0-385-41173-8
Cooper's exuberant talent, displayed so effectively in Family , is somewhat muted in this uneven collection of eight deceptively simple slice-of-life parables. In ``Vanity,'' a friend tells of the downfall of an egocentric beauty, whose passage from
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J. California Cooper, Author Doubleday Books $22.95 (273p) ISBN 978-0-385-46787-2
The heroines in Cooper's latest collection of lively, charming stories (after The Matter is Life) reaffirm the centrality of romantic, committed relationships in the lives of many African American women. Cooper, whose 1989 collection, Homemade Love...
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J. California Cooper, Author Doubleday Books $21.95 (351p) ISBN 978-0-385-46785-8
American Book Award-winner Cooper (for the short-story collection Homemade Love) sets her second novel (after Family) in Yoville, a small legal township outside New York City. There, this preachy intergenerational saga traces the intersecting lives...
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J. California Cooper, Author Doubleday Books $22.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-385-48704-7
Cooper's disappointing third novel (after Family) frustrates readers with a good premise poorly executed. Mordecai and Lifee meet as slaves on a plantation in post-Civil War Texas. Forced to marry by their master before they even know each other,...
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J. California Cooper, Author St. Martin's Press $12.95 (175p) ISBN 978-0-312-38895-9
The stories in this second collection from the author of A Piece of Mine are all about love. About sex and family too, and life when it is lived with wonder and relish. Told in first-person, in a lively, unobtrusive black dialect, these tales, set...
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J. California Cooper, Author St. Martin's Press $14.95 (211p) ISBN 978-0-312-00684-6
The five long stories in this volume radiate the same energy that readers of Cooper's A Piece of Mine and Homemade Love will expect. Love between parents and children, between sisters, friends, women and men, are all illuminated in the author's...
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J. California Cooper, Author St. Martin's Press $10.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-02285-3
Writing of these five long tales, PW praised the author's ``sprightly vernacular prose'' and ``sharp eye for detail,'' but noted that ``no matter how admirable and lively these stories are individually, the sameness of their tone and structure . . .
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J. California Cooper, Author Doubleday Books $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-49680-3
African-American women struggling to make something of their smalltown lives inspire novelist and short story writer Cooper's (Homemade Love; A Piece of Mine) sixth collection of four down-home tales, told with wisdom and gentle humor. Navigating...
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