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Original Essays | September 23, 2009
By Jonathan Lethem
For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf I almost wrote gulp between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has...
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Bailey's Cafe (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Gloria Naylor
Synopses & Reviews Set in a diner where the food isn't very good and the ambience veers between heaven and hell, this bestselling novel from the author of Mama Day and The Women of Brewster Place is a feast for the senses and the spirit. "A virtuoso orchestration of survival, suffering, courage and humor."--New York Times Book Review.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780679748212
- Author:
- Naylor, Gloria
- Publisher:
- Vintage Books USA
- Location:
- New York :
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Fiction
- Subject:
- Restaurants
- Subject:
- Psychological
- Subject:
- Restaurants -- United States -- Fiction.
- Subject:
- Didactic fiction
- Subject:
- Restaurants -- Fiction.
- Edition Description:
- Paperback
- Series:
- Vintage Contemporaries (Paperback)
- Series Volume:
- 0000
- Publication Date:
- August 1993
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Yes
- Pages:
- 240
- Dimensions:
- 804x518x66 60
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