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Ellen Douglas (1921–2012)

Auteur van Can't Quit You, Baby

11+ Werken 283 Leden 7 Besprekingen Favoriet van 2 leden

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Ellen Douglas was the pen name of Josephine Ayres Haxton, who was born in Natchez, Mississippi on July 12, 1921. She graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1942. During her lifetime, she wrote eleven books, including six novels and several collections of short stories and essays. Her toon meer novels include Apostles of Light, The Rock Cried Out, A Family's Affairs, A Lifetime Burning, and Can't Quit You, Baby. She won a lifetime achievement award in 2008 from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. She died after an extended illness on November 7, 2012 at the age of 91. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

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Werken van Ellen Douglas

Can't Quit You, Baby (1988) 84 exemplaren
The Rock Cried Out (1979) 55 exemplaren
A Lifetime Burning (1982) 28 exemplaren
Apostles of Light (Banner Books) (1973) 18 exemplaren
The Magic Carpet and Other Tales (1987) 10 exemplaren
Witnessing (2004) 5 exemplaren
A long night 1 exemplaar

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SELECTED FOR RE-READ 2023 - just as lovely the second time around. Determined to find and read her fiction!

Original Review
Before finding this book, I'd never heard of this southern author, who apparently draws heavily from her long family history for her fiction. I chose the book from the biography shelves based on the lovely snippet of prose on the back cover.

Part memoir, part contemplative musings, partly an exploration of southern history and a southern family's history...a dense, lush, marvelous reading experience!

Lovely writing, and beautifully puzzling in its construction. I loved this book so much, I will likely read it again (after finding and reading some of her fiction, perhaps.)
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Kim.Sasso | 2 andere besprekingen | Aug 27, 2023 |
Gorgeous writing and Douglas gives you a beautiful sense of place, making me want to visit Mississippi, something no other book has done. But (spoilers ahead) in this book about racism, she's ultimately too easy on the white characters who aren't Klansmen because they're racist, but just because they're bored and like being with men. Or the narrator's parasitic white family, living off the sweat and blood of the same black family for generations, but, well, that's the way it goes & we're all friends now. You can't write about this stuff and then back off from its consequences just because you're uncomfortable. So for writing and everything up until the end, I'd give it a 4.5. For the "we're all friends here after all" ending, I'd give it the coward's 1 it deserves, so I’m averaging them.

Coming back to this in 2020, I have even less patience for it now. I don’t know what the math is math is, but it’s a 1.
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susanbooks | 1 andere bespreking | Nov 29, 2018 |
Before finding this book, I'd never heard of this southern author, who apparently draws heavily from her long family history for her fiction. I chose the book from the biography shelves based on the lovely snippet of prose on the back cover.

Part memoir, part contemplative musings, partly an exploration of southern history and a southern family's history...a dense, lush, marvelous reading experience!

Lovely writing, and beautifully puzzling in its construction. I loved this book so much, I will likely read it again (after finding and reading some of her fiction, perhaps.)… (meer)
 
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Kim_Sasso | 2 andere besprekingen | Mar 14, 2018 |
I gave up after 66 pages. Maybe this New Yorker couldn't relate to the book's strong sense of place of the South. Written under a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the novel has a classy pedigree but I just couldn't appreciate it.
½
 
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ennie | 1 andere bespreking | Jul 5, 2011 |

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Werken
11
Ook door
9
Leden
283
Populariteit
#82,295
Waardering
½ 3.6
Besprekingen
7
ISBNs
35
Talen
1
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2

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