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About This Book:

Title: Mother of Pearl

Other Available Formats:
Hardcover, 1999
Audio Cassette, 1999
Audio Cassette, 1999
Audio Cassette, 1999
Audio Cassette, 1999
Hardcover, 1999
Reinforced Hardcover, 2000
Paperback, 2000
Prebinding, 2000
Paperback, 2000
Paperback, 2001

Synopsis
This first novel by a 44-year-old preacher's daughter is a small-town tale set in the 1950s. The story revolves around the friendship between Even Grade (named for a road), a young orphaned black man who knows nothing about his background, and a teenage white girl named Valuable Korner (named after a real estate sign), daughter of the town prostitute, who wishes she could escape hers.

Details
Language:        English

Size
Length:        448 Pages
Weight:        1.8 Pounds
Height:         10 Inches
Width:          6.8 Inches
Thickness:    1.8 Inches



Publisher Notes
First Line: Even Grade walked past the spot on the bridge where Canaan caught the bottle with his head and saw the blood mark was still there, but just barely.
In a small Mississippi town during the late 1950s, Even Grade, a twenty-eight-year-old Black man who grew up as an orphan, and Valuable Korner, the teenage white daughter of the local prostitute, search for love, family, and commitment as their lives intersect with that of Joody Two Sun, a seer who becomes Even's lover.



Industry Reviews
"[A] promising debut....As style, her prose is often beautiful and full of grace, but as communication it can be confusing....What lingers are moments, sayings, and the marvelous descriptions of sights and sounds..."
(03/15/1999)
"Haynes gets away with...much in this book--like a plot heavy with coincidence and creaky cliffhangers--because of the sheer vitality of her prose. Like a novelist not only writing about the 1950's but writing in the 1950's, she strives to bring a whole, rambunctious world onto the page."
(06/27/1999)


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Book Details Summary: The title of this book is Mother of Pearl and it was written by Melinda Haynes. This edition of Mother of Pearl is in a Hardcover format. This books publish date is June 1999 and it has a suggested retail price of $23.95. There are 448 pages in the book and it was published by Hyperion Books. The 10 digit ISBN is 0786866276 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780786866274. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.