Working within the tradition of the great African-American women novelists, Parks, this year's winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama, presents an original debut tale about a down-on-their-luck black family in 1960s Texas in search of the storied jewels buried with one of their relatives. Unabridged. 5 CDs.
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Working within the tradition of the great African-American women novelists, Parks, this year's winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama, presents an original debut tale about a down-on-their-luck black family in 1960s Texas in search of the storied jewels buried with one of their relatives. Unabridged. 5 CDs.
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Add this copy of Getting Mother's Body to cart. $5.99, good condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Random House Audio Publishing Group.
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Getting Mother's Body along with ZZ Packer's Drinking Coffee Elsewhere are two of the freshest, most exciting works of African American fiction that I have come across in years. They're also two of the best books I've bought this year. Both books (Packer's is a collection of short stories) eschews the common girlfriends/black-men-are-no-good themes of most comtemporary black writers like McMillan and shy away from more cerebral and metaphorical themes like Morrison or Walker. Instead this is straight forward fiction meant to entertian that just so happens to have black main characters. Getting Mother's Body, like McMillan's Day Late and a Dollar Short, is told from the POV of several characters with the purposeful use of bad grammar. Although some grammatical purists may find it difficult to get into the novel for that reason, I felt it lent an honest and real voice to the characters. Not everyone says "are not" instead of "ain't" or "going to" instead of "gonna". Personally, I found the purposeful use of bad grammar more difficlut to follow in McMillan's Day Late... than Getting Mother's Body. I won't go into the particulars of the novel as so many others have. What I will say is that this is a breezy, fast and fun read. Parks is a vivid storyteller and her images scroll across your mind like a well paced movie. Pick this up and see for yourself. Pure, unadulterated fun.
Scouterpie
Jun 1, 2007
A play in novel form
Really reads like a play. Close your eyes and imagine each chapter/speaker standing on stage bathed in a spotlight, while the remaining characters share the stage unlit. Up light, down light, up light and so on. Interesting characters, mostly predictable plot turns, but not dull. I thought it was a quick read, but don't try it in multiple sittings. Really best read in a few large chunks.
