{"product_id":"cant-quit-you-baby-paperback","title":"Can't Quit You, Baby - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEllen Douglas\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It is rare when a book this fine enters the world of contemporary American literature.\" - \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Two women share a Mississippi household for fifteen years, rolling out piecrusts and making conversation. Cornelia is rich, white, and pampered, the mistress of the house, who oversees a seemingly perfect world of smooth surfaces and stubborn silence. Tweet, her housekeeper, is a poor, black, world-weary woman with a ghost-ridden past. As the years go by, Cornelia and Tweet each endure moments of uncertainty and despair; each, in her time of need, is rescued by the other. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the footsteps of Southern writers like Peter Taylor, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O'Connor, Ellen Douglas celebrates the resiliency of the human spirit in this story of two women bound by transgression and guilt, memory and illusion, gratitude and love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Ellen Douglas is not just one of our best Southern novelists. She is one of our best American novelists.\" - \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEllen Douglas, whose real name is \u003cb\u003eJosephine Haxton\u003c\/b\u003e, was born in Natchez, Mississippi, and published her first novel, \u003cb\u003eA Family's Affairs\u003c\/b\u003e, in 1962. This first endeavor, as well as her short-story collection \u003cb\u003eBlack Cloud, White Cloud\u003c\/b\u003e were both included in \u003cb\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e's year's ten best listings. Her fourth novel, \u003cb\u003eApostles of Light\u003c\/b\u003e, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1973. Now seventy-eight years old, she makes her home in Jackson, Mississippi.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 x 7.78 x 5.11 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 1989\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51754958979360,"sku":"9780140121025","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/42d110e4f75614b57ea25c536931e920.webp?v=1780047186","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/cant-quit-you-baby-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}