Family: A Novel

J. California Cooper

Doubleday, 1991 - Fiction - 231 pages

Much has been written about the institution of slavery. But with "Family", Cooper has taken the slave narrative and recreated it as an epic, yet collo quial, poem. "Mesmerizing . . . Cooper weaves four wry, humorous, tragic tales that envelop and transcend time, offering hope and renewal at the same time they chronicle desolation and death".--"San Francisco Chronicle". Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 13
• Section 3: 21

About the author

J. California Cooper was born in Berkeley, California in 1932. She was an award-winning playwright, novelist, and short story writer. She wrote 17 plays and received a 1978 Black Playwright Award for Strangers. She wrote several short story collections including A Piece of Mine, Wild Stars Seeking Midnight Suns, and The Future Has a Past. Homemade Love received the 1989 American Book Award and Funny Valentine was made into a 1999 TV movie. Her novels included Family, The Wake of the Wind, Life Is Short but Wide, and Some People, Some Other Place. She received the James Baldwin Award and the Literary Lion Award from the American Library Association in 1988. She died on September 20, 2014 at the age of 82.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Family: A Novel
• Author: J. California Cooper
• Publisher: Doubleday, 1991
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Mar 5, 2008
• ISBN: 0385411715, 9780385411714
• Length: 231 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / African American & Black / General; Fiction / Family Life / General; Fiction / General; Fiction / Historical / General; Literary Criticism / American / General