SWEET EYES.
by Agee, Jonis
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 0517575159
- ISBN 13
- 9780517575154
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About This Item
New York:: Crown,, (1991). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The author's first novel (preceded by poetry and two highly acclaimed collections of short stories) set in a small midwestern town celebrating its centennial. "Honey Parrish of Divinity, Iowa, drinks too much, sleeps around and talks to her dead lover. . . .she is a woman drifting toward madness while searching for something that will anchor her to safety.. . Honey is also plagued by the voice of Clinton, her dead lover, until Jasper Johnson comes along. Johnson, the ``sweet eyes'' of the title, is the town's only black man. His tempestuous affair with Honey is the spark that fires a smoldering racism in the community, spearheaded by Sonny Boy [Honey's pyschotic brother]. Fearing that her brother's bigotry caused the death of a young black woman 15 years earlier, Honey launches a painful search for the truth." (Kirkus) A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. 404 pp.,
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- Title
- SWEET EYES.
- Author
- Agee, Jonis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0517575159
- ISBN 13
- 9780517575154
- Publisher
- Crown,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1991)
- Keywords
- iowa, midwest, racism, women authors, new york times notable,
- Bookseller catalogs
- First book or first novel;
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