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Praise for Gayl Jones 'Gayl Jones's work represents a watershed in American literature . . . she stands at the very cutting edge of understanding the modern world' Imani Perry 'Gayl Jones is a literary legend . . . A once-in-a-lifetime work of literature, the kind that changes your understanding of the world' Yara Rodrigues Fowler on Palmares 'Her prose is intricate, mesmerizing, and endlessly inventive and subversive' Deesha Philyaw on Palmares 'Jones's writing powerfully blends narrative and lyricism . . . Her imagination seems to thrive on outstripping one's expectations' Margo Jefferson on…mehr

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Praise for Gayl Jones 'Gayl Jones's work represents a watershed in American literature . . . she stands at the very cutting edge of understanding the modern world' Imani Perry 'Gayl Jones is a literary legend . . . A once-in-a-lifetime work of literature, the kind that changes your understanding of the world' Yara Rodrigues Fowler on Palmares 'Her prose is intricate, mesmerizing, and endlessly inventive and subversive' Deesha Philyaw on Palmares 'Jones's writing powerfully blends narrative and lyricism . . . Her imagination seems to thrive on outstripping one's expectations' Margo Jefferson on Butter 'A fascinating meditation on Black female creativity . . . Vivid characters shimmer through the pages' Guardian on The Birdcatcher
Autorenporträt
Gayl Jones was born in Kentucky in 1949. She attended Connecticut College and Brown University and has taught at Wellesley and the University of Michigan. Her books include Corregidora (1975), Eva's Man (1976), The Healing (1998), which was a National Book Award finalist, Palmares (2021), which was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction and longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, and The Birdcatcher (2022), which was also a National Book Award Finalist.