Gorilla, My Love (Vintage Contemporaries) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Gorilla, My Love (Vintage Contemporaries) Saturday, August 1 2009.

• Ms. Bambara grabs you by the throat...she dazzles, she charms." -- Chicago Daily News In these fifteen superb stories, written in a style at once ineffable and immediately recognizable, Toni Cade Bambara gives us compeIling portraits of a wide range of unforgettable characters, from sassy children to cunning old men, in scenes shifting between uptown New York and rural North CaroLina. A young girl suffers her first betrayal. A widow flirts with an elderly blind man against the wishes of her grown-up children. A neighborhood loan shark teaches o white social worker a lesson in responsibility. And there is more. Sharing the world of Toni Cade Bambara's "straight-up fiction" is a stunning experience. "Among the best portraits of black life to have appeared in some time." -- Saturday Review "Bambara presents situations that build like improvisations on a melody....As drawn with spirit and subtlety. <her characters> are-even in their defeats-a pleasure to watch." -- Newsweek

Shelfari edited the contributors of Gorilla, My Love (Vintage Contemporaries) Monday, July 27 2009.

• Added a contributor: Toni Cade Bambara: (Primary Author)