Redemption Song - Rilegato

Berry, Bertice

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ISBN 10: 0385498446 ISBN 13: 9780385498449

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 2000

Riassunto

In her fiction debut, comedian and inspirational speaker Bertice Berry has written a spiritual love story that will seep into your bones and remain with you long after the last page has been turned. Redemption Song is a marvelous story about love, the importance of understanding one's history, and the power of books and how they can influence your life.

Josephine "Fina" Chambers and Ross Buchanan meet in Black Images, a small African American bookshop, as they both reach for a rare copy of a slave woman's "memory book." Each refuses to let go of the book until the wise and spirited owner, Miss Cozy, negotiates a deal. Over the next several days, they will read the slave woman's book together in the comfort of the bookstore. In the process, Ross and Fina will realize that the path to their shared future may be linked to something that happened more than a century ago...
Over the next several days, they read the slave woman's book aloud in what becomes the magical cocoon of the bookstore. In the process, they learn about African-American history, the power of the human spirit, and discover four essential elements for the survival of society. Ross and Fina also come to realize that the path to their hearts may be linked to an event that happened more than a century ago.

REDEMPTION SONG is a marvelous story about love, the importance of understanding one's history, and, most of all, about books and how they can influence a person's life. It is also a love song to booksellers everywhere: The Miss Cosy character is modeled after a real African-American bookstore owner. -->

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Recensione:

"A sparkling, heartfelt debut and a compelling read."
--Connie Briscoe, author of Sisters and Lovers, Big Girls Don't Cry, and A Long Way Home

"A love song to book lovers and booksellers everywhere!"
--E. Lynn Harris, author of Abide With Me

"[A] tear-tugging fiction debut."
--Publishers Weekly

L'autore:

Bertice Berry is a sociologist, comedian and inspirational speaker. She is also the author of three nonfiction books, including I'm On My Way But Your Foot Is On My Head: A Black Woman's Story of Getting Over Life's Hurdles; Sckraight from the Ghetto: You Know You're Ghetto If...; and You Still Ghetto: You Know You're Still Ghetto If... She lives in California, where she is raising her sister's three children.

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• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0385498446
• ISBN 13: 9780385498449
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 181