The Healing (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Gayl Jones
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The late 1990’s
- Setting: The eastern United States
- Principal Characters: Harlan Jane Eagleton, Joan Savage, Josef Ehelich von Fremd, Naughton Jim “Jamey” Savage, Nicholas J. Love, Nicodemus Sandovar, Grandmother Jaboti, Norvelle
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Traveling or travelers, Love or romance, Music or musicians, Friendship, Grandparents or grandchildren, Rock music, Folk medicine
- Locales: East (U.S.)
In 1975, the brilliant young black writer Gayl Jones published a beautiful and powerful blues novel, Corregidora, about a blues singer, Ursa Corregidora, and her hatred of the slave owner who had fathered both her grandmother and her mother. A year later, her somewhat less successful but no less grim novel Eva’s Man appeared, about a woman caught in the grips of a bleak sexual obsession that turns deadly; the next year, she published a book of short stories, White Rat. Although she would in 1981 publish a novel in verse, Song for Anninho, about two lovers...
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