Butter : novellas, stories, and fragments /
This new collection of short fiction is only the second in the author's rich career and one that displays her strengths in the genre in many facets. Opening with two novella-length works, "Butter" and "Sophia," this collection features Jones's legendary talents in a ran...
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| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Beacon Press,
[2023].
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| Summary: | This new collection of short fiction is only the second in the author's rich career and one that displays her strengths in the genre in many facets. Opening with two novella-length works, "Butter" and "Sophia," this collection features Jones's legendary talents in a range of settings and styles, from the hyperrealist to the mystical, in intricate multipart stories, in more traditional forms and even in short fragments. Her narrators are women and men, Black, Brown, Indigenous, her settings are historical and contemporary, in South America, Mexico and the United States. Her themes center on complex identities, unorthodox longings and aspirations. She writes about spies, photographers, playground designers, cartoonists and baristas, about workers and revolutionaries, about environmentalism, feminism, poetry, film and love, but above all about our multicultural, multiethnic and multiracial society. |
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| Physical Description: | 192 pages ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780807030011 0807030015 |