Jessie & Jesus & Cousin Claire
ジョージアを舞台に、家族の記憶、信仰、恋愛、そして女性たちのあいだにある緊張を描く小説。レイモンド・アンドリュースが、南部の家庭に流れる感情の複雑さを静かに掘り下げる。
作品情報
南部の家族に残る記憶と欲望が、静かにぶつかり合う。
二人の女性と家族の関係を軸に、ジョージアの南部社会に息づく記憶と欲望を描く。素朴な物語運びのなかに、家族の歴史と個人の選択が重なり合う。
レビュー要約
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家族の関係と南部の空気感を丁寧にたどる物語として受け止められている。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Peachtree
- 発売日
- 1991-10-01
- ページ数
- 202ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 16.51 x 1.91 x 24.13 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781561450329
- ISBN-10
- 1561450324
- 価格
- 5679 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/United States/Black & African American
Jessie and Claire make their unique mark on the rural South. Look out! Here come Jessie Mitchell Blackshear and her equally dangerous double, Cousin Claire. Sexy, smart, and sassy, these powerful Black women survive and thrive in the male-dominated world of the rural South. Thoroughly different and equally dedicated to getting their way, Jessie and Claire will entertain and amaze you—if they don't swallow you whole! In these two hilarious and hair-raising novellas, Raymond Andrews has painted portraits of two very different black women whose means and modes of manipulation are mirror-opposites of each other, but whose motivations are frighteningly similar. The results—and their impact on those around them—are equally profound. Welcome to the darkly comic world of Jessie & Jesus & Cousin Claire, vividly presented in the rambunctious and rollicking prose of a master storyteller and inspired seer into human nature. Published shortly before Andrews's death in 1991, Jessie & Jesus & Cousin Claire won a 1992 American Book Award.
Raymond Andrews in the author of a number of books, including The Last Radio Baby and Jessie and Jesus and Cousin Claire. He passed away in 1991. Benny Andrews illustrated all of his brother Raymond's books. Educated at the Art Institute of Chicago, he was an internationally-known artist whose works hang in major museums around the country, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Hirschorn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Studio Museum of Harlem, and the Museum of African Art. He passed away in 2006.
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My great cousin write this book and to have this piece of history in my family is priceless
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love raymond andrews but this is not his best work, still worth the read, he was a great author that should be read, so sorry he is gone
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