- African American families, Fiction, Chicago (Ill.), African American women
"Las Vegas, 1994. The Prices are introduced by Viola, the family's outspoken matriarch: Her husband, Cecil, has shut the door behind him for the last time; and their four adult kids, scattered across the country, seem determined to send her to her grave, or at least to the hospital with worrying.
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Classical in form, contemporary, spare and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- First published
- January 15, 2001
- Pages
- 431
- Publisher
- Editorial Seix Barral, Thorndike Press, Penguin Books, Limited
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780451211088
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