Hot Johnny: (And the Women Who Loved Him) - Brossura

Jackson-Opoku, Sandra

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0345435087 ISBN 13: 9780345435088

Casa editrice: One World, 2002

Riassunto

The life and times of Hot Johnny--saint and sinner, hero and villain, victim and victimizer--are seen through the eyes of the women who loved him, including Peaches, the prostitute who names him; his college soulmate Tree; Etta, the older woman who teaches him about love; Destiny, his young wife; and Johnsetta, the daughter he has never known. Reprint.

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“AN INTENSE NARRATIVE . . . AS HOT AS A FIRECRACKER.”
–Chicago Sun-Times

“DAZZLING . . . [A] BRILLIANT NEW NOVEL.”
–African Sun Times

“UNFLINCHINGLY HONEST.”
–Essence

L'autore:

Sandra Jackson-Opoku is an award-winning author, poet, and journalist. The River Where Blood Is Born, her first novel, won the Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award for Fiction; her work has also earned a National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Fellowship, Coordinating Council of Literary Magazine General Electric Fiction Award for Young Writers, and a Ragdale Foundation U.S.-Africa Writers Fellowship, among other honors.

She lives in Chicago with her two children, Kimathi and Adjoa.
From the Hardcover edition.

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• Editore: One World
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0345435087
• ISBN 13: 9780345435088
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320