Singing in the Comeback Choir - Softcover

Bebe Moore Campbell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749322608 ISBN 13: 9780749322601

Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

Bebe Moore Campbell, the bestselling author of Brothers and Sisters and Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, "soars like a star soprano." --Atlanta Journal & Constitution

Witty, warm, wise, and wonderful, this new novel takes us into the lives of two unforgettable women: Maxine, who thinks she has it all, and her grandmother Lindy, a once-brilliant singer who's about to give Maxine a lesson in faith, commitment--and comebacks...

"A book that embraces readers and wraps them in the humanity of characters who love, cry, laugh, and experience the transitions of life at every turn." --Dallas Morning News

* Bebe Moore Campbell is the author of the NAACP Image Award-winning Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, and the New York Times bestseller Brothers and Sisters

The New York Times bestseller that "satisfies the soul."--Chicago Tribune

About this title

About the Author:

Bebe Moore Campbell was a bestselling author and a journalist. Her nonfiction work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Ms., Essence, Black Enterprise, Ebony, Working Mother, USA Weekend, and Adweek, among other publications. She was a regular contributor to National Public Radio.

Bebe Moore Campbell was the author of such national, critically acclaimed bestsellers as Brothers and Sisters, Singing in the Comeback Choir, Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, and What You Owe Me as well as the award-winning children’s book, Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry and the recently published Stompin’ at the Savoy.

Campbell was born and grew up in Philadelphia and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, where she earned a bachelor of science degree in elementary education. She taught elementary and middle school for five years. She is survived by her husband, Ellis Gordon, Jr., her daughter, the actress Maia Campbell, and a son, Ellis Gordon III.

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: Arrow Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0749322608
• ISBN 13: 9780749322601
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 372