Singing in the Comeback Choir - Hardcover

Campbell, Bebe Moore

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399142983 ISBN 13: 9780399142987

Publisher: Putnam Adult, 1998

Synopsis

Called one of the leading black novelists of the twentieth century by The Washington Post, the author of Brothers and Sisters follows a successful producer who tries to revitalize the ghetto of her youth. 250,000 first printing. Tour.

About this title

About the Author:

Bebe Moore Campbell is a commentator for National Public Radio and a contributing editor for Essence magazine.

From AudioFile:

Campbell writes feelingly and humanely about today's African-American women, their relationships, sense of self and connection to their roots. In this novel, a successful TV talk-show producer copes with her straying husband and self-destructive grandmother, a former pop singer, while wrestling with her failed idealism and inability to trust. It is a kind of fantasy in that all the characters, even the less admirable ones, are too good to be true. As narrator, Campbell authentically delivers the African-American cadences in the dialogue that, as a writer, is her principal strength. She also nicely communicates her characters' passions and humor. However, a more accomplished reader would do more justice to the actual characterizations and would give more grace to the descriptive passages. Y.R. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Adult
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0399142983
• ISBN 13: 9780399142987
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 372