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Gloria Naylor – Mama Day (1989)

Bibliographical Description

89.04.W059: Naylor – Mama Day

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.

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

Lewis Nordan – The All-Girl Football Team (1989)

Bibliographical Description

89.02.W058: Nordan – The All-Girl Football Team

72 leaves, pp. [14] 1-15 16-28 29-47 48-58 59-73 74-83 84-97 98-112 113-125 [5]

Edition statement: First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, February 1989

Contents: π1a author photo with blurbs, π1b “ALSO BY LEWIS NORDAN”, π2a half-title, π2b blank, π3a title, π3b imprint, π4a dedication, π4b blank, π5a epigraph, π5b blank, π6a table of contents, π6b blank, π7a fly-title, π7b blank, 1-125 The All-Girl Football Team: 1-15 Sugar Among the Chickens, 16-28 The Talker at the Freak-Show, 29-47 Sugar, the Eunuchs, and Big G. B., 48-58 The Sears and Roebuck Catalog Game, 59-73 The Farmers’ Daughter, 74-83 Wild Dog, 84-97 John Thomas Bird, 98-112 The Attendant, 113-125 The All-Girl Football Team; χ1b blank, χ2a about the author, χ2b blank, χ3a Vintage Contemporaries list, χ3b Vintage Contemporaries list, continued, with order form.

Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Chris Moore; interior author photo by Ed Sumrok.

Copies: JDP 1.1

Blurbs

(front cover) A stunning collection of stories. Mr. Nordan’s distinctive gift is for blending the grotesque and the ordinary. – The New York Times Book Review
Love and humor triumph in these often expert fictions. – Kirkus Reviews
Welcome to Arrow Catcher, Mississippi, a Delta town whose air is filled with “innocence and ripe apples.” But to Sugar Mecklin, a young boy who is the central character in many of these marvelous stories, it is also a place “where freaks grow like magic from the buckshot and gumbo, where eunuchs roam the Delta flatscape looking for Episcopalians.” Sugar’s mother spends her days creating imaginary lives for models in her Sears and Roebuck catalog. Daddy keeps a black suit with the words “Rock ‘n’ Roll Music” spelled out in sequins on the back hidden in his closet. Sugar searches for a way to grow up with dignity, and finds resources he never knew he had. While fishing for chickens in the yard, he lands a rooster on his head instead: “My parents were proud of me. They believed that a man who has worn a chicken on his head would never be a fool to geography or marriage or alcohol.”
Lewis Nordan’s magical, often sidesplittingly funny tales are triumphs of Southern storytelling.

Christopher Coe – I Look Divine (1989)

Bibliographical Description

89.01.W057: Coe – I Look Divine

64 leaves, pp. [12] 1 2-109 [7]

Edition statement: First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, January 1989

Contents: π1a author photo with excerpt and blurb, π1b blank, π2a half-title, π2b blank, π3a title, π3b imprint, π4a dedication, π4b blank, π5a epigraph, π5b blank, π6a fly-title, π6b blank, 1-109 I Look Divine, χ1b blank, χ2a about the author, χ2b blank, χ3a- χ4b Vintage Contemporaries list.

Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Michael Christman; interior author photo by Tom Victor.

Copies: JDP 1.2

Blurbs

(front cover) Laconic, subtle and full of lyrical effects…Coe is an icy and acute observer. – The New York Times Book Review
I Look Divine is Christopher Coe’s first novel, but it is written with the sort of terrifying, dizzy genius and driven confidence that most writers—if they’re lucky—only achieve somewhere in the middle of their careers. This book is brilliant, demanding, funny, and shocking, and even now I can’t shake its impact. – David Leavitt
Nicholas was exquisite. Vain, clever, wealthy, and extravagant, he lived for his beauty and the pleasures it brought him. As a young man he travels the world with his older brother; as Nicholas flirts and poses in the stylish bars of Rome, Madrid, and Mexico, his brother becomes his witness and his victim, enchanted and repelled by Nicholas’s spectacular artifice. But by his thirties, Nicholas’s life, as he has known it, is over. / I Look Divine’s precise yet deeply felt narrative tells the dark tale of a man conquered by his one great love—himself.
Brilliant and riveting. Every word is as perfect as the fascinating Nicholas. It’s like a novel in lacquer. – Diane Johnson
I Look Divine…a fascinating account of the relationship between brothers. – The Village Voice
By the author of Such Times