Brewster Placen naiset
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9789511079323 (9511079328)
Publish date: 1984
Publisher: Otava
Pages no: 256
Edition language: Finnish
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Adult,
African American,
Contemporary,
Female Authors,
Short Stories
A gorgeous novel with compelling characters and several interesting plot lines. I enjoyed most how Naylor effectively utilized symbols which could very easily have been cliche.
A riveting first novel that dares to write about the stuff of melodrama, and yet never slips into sentimentality. It accomplishes this because the stories are all too real. The tragedy of these women's lives we see even today in the news and on the streets around us. These are the kinds of stories t...
Books Read in the Past:At the time of its writing, this provoked a great deal of discussion. The intersecting stories of different women living on Brewster Place form a novel-in-sections that, though it has a workshop-y structural feel, generally works effectively. Brewster Place itself is more than...
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