Bibliographical Description
89.04.W059: Naylor – Mama Day
MAMA | DAY | [stylized rule 4 x 40 mm ] | GLORIA NAYLOR | VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES | VINTAGE BOOKS | A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE, INC. | NEW YORK
168 leaves, pp. [18] 1–3 4-10 11-13 14-165 166-169 170-312 [6]
Edition statement: First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, April 1989
Contents: π1a blurbs, π1b blurbs, π2a half-title, π2b blank, π3a “Also by Gloria Naylor”, π3b blank, π4a title, π4b imprint, π5a acknowledgment, π5b blank, π6a dedication, π6b-π7a map, π7b blank, π8a fly-title, π8b blank, π9a family tree, π9b blank, 1 bill of sale, 2 blank, 3-312 Mama Day: 3-10 prologue, 11-165 part one, 166 blank, 167-312 part two; χ1a about the author, χ1b blank, χ2a Vintage Contemporaries list, χ2b Vintage Contemporaries list, continued, χ3a blank, χ3 blank.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by David Montiel; exterior author photo by Donna DeCesare.
Copyright: © 1988. ISBN:0-679-72181-9 / 9780679721819. Price: $10.00 USD, $13.50 CAD. Mama Day was first published by Ticknor & Fields, a subsidiary of Houghton Mifflin Co., 1988.
Copies: 1.6
Blurbs
- (front blurb) Resonates with genuine excitement…a big, strong, admirable novel. – The New York Times Book Review
- This is a wonderful novel, full of spirit and sass and wisdom, and completely realized. – Washington Post
- The bestselling new novel from the American Book Award-winning author of The Women of Brewster Street is set in a world that is timeless yet indelibly authentic—the Georgia sea island of Willow Springs, where people still practice herbal medicine and honor ancestors who came over as slaves. On Willow Springs lives Mama Day, a matriarch who can call up lightning storms and see secrets in her dreams. But all of Mama Day’s powers are tested by her great-niece, Cocoa, a stubbornly emancipated woman whose life and very soul are now in danger from the island’s darker forces. Mama Day is a powerful generational saga at once tender and suspenseful, overflowing with magic and common sense.
- Naylor has a dazzling sense of humor, rich comic observation and that indefinable quality we call ‘heart.’ – Rita Mae Brown, Los Angeles Times
- A moving tale of love, pride, power, healing and belief in the unbelievable that combines the poignancy of an old woman’s past with the urgency of a young woman’s future. – Atlanta Journal-Constitution