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This new, slightly abridged audio version of The Women of Brewster Place is a good rendition of Naylor's 1982 debut novel, which won a National Book Award. Tonya Pinkins reads and presents the characters very well, catching the lyricism of each woman's story; the range of emotions is a demanding task, and Pinkins responds creatively and sensitively. The recording length captures the essence of Naylor's seven stories, but for those who know the book, this abridgment doesn't fully capture the power of the whole or the full devastation and pride of Naylor's characters. The program will have to be repackaged as the original box won't withstand much handling. This is appropriate for budget-pressed libraries that can't afford the unabridged version (Audio Reviews, LJ 11/15/93).
Joyce Kessel, Villa Maria Coll., Buffalo, N.Y.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.

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The women of Brewster Place are "hard-edged, soft-centered, brutally demanding, and easily pleased". In their stories, Gloria Naylor has created a community of women that has touched thousands of readers across the country. Now the basis for a November 1988, ABC-TV, three-hour movie, starring Oprah Winfrey. --Ce texte provient de la Paperback édition.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 The Women of Brewster Place, Jui 28 2004
Par Joe Meredith (Baltimore, Md.) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: Women Of Brewster Place (Paperback)
A wonderful novel -- enjoyed the reading and also got me thinking about the issues concerning African-American women. I am looking forward to reading other novels by Gloria Naylor.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Yeah, it's depressing, but it's also wonderful, Jui 25 2004
This review is from: Women Of Brewster Place (Paperback)
Why do books like this one get such sour reviews? Authors like Gloria Naylor, who isn't afraid of writing about the evil of the world, are rare. This book offers a glimpse at the reality of the urban destitute. Naylor is extremely insightful. The stories in this book are touching and very well-written. Naylor's talent for description is amazing. Her characters are realistic and full of emotions. I love absolutely everything about this book. This book is incredible.
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3.0étoiles sur 5 An interesting montage, Jui 9 2003
Par Glen Engel Cox "www.engel-cox.org" (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: Women Of Brewster Place (Paperback)
A riveting first novel that darks to write about the stuff of melodrama, and yet never slips into sentimentality. It accomplishes this because the stories are all too real. The tragedy of these women's lives we see even today in the news and on the streets around us. These are the kinds of stories that make up a revolution, except the revolution has passed. The revolution had a dream at its center: a world where all had the same chances. But that dream has been on hold--deferred, as the Langston Hughes poem that serves as an epigraph to this "novel" puts it. In fact, Naylor is responding to that idea--where is the dream now?

I had to put novel in quotes above because this really is a montage (echoes of the Hughes poem once again). In science fiction, they call these novels that are made by linking short stories together a "fix-up," but that really does not fit this well, possibly because Naylor planned it this way, rather than cobbling it together as an afterthought. Predating Amistaud Maupin's Tales of the City, a similar collection of tales about the occupants of one building, its depiction of the various women who find themselves in the last place that will take them, a slum tenement building on a dead end street, is gripping and emotionally moving. These women are not perfect-- Naylor's heroes all have tragic flaws--but the general feeling you get is not that they are necessarily their own downfall, but as much a victim of the society that they find themselves a part of. Even in the worst case, Cora Lee, there's something there to pity, and possibly, gain new understanding.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 Excellent Book
I really liked this book. I had to read it in a college lit course - "Women in Contemporary American Literature" - and expected to hate it. Read more
Publié le Oct. 28 2002 par S. Jorgenson

5.0étoiles sur 5 GREAT BOOK!!!
I saw this movie first, but I still wanted to read the book because supposedly the book is always better. Read more
Publié le Juil 17 2002 par Venessia Young

1.0étoiles sur 5 Didn't like it
Just didn't like it, was boring, didn't know if the it was a dream or a story, didn't like the personalities of the people.
Publié le Mai 8 2002 par Ivan P. Baotic

4.0étoiles sur 5 "R-E-S-P-E-C-T, oh my Lord, what it means to me"
Seven African-American women living in a small corner of an unnamed Northern city, in decrepit, badly heated buildings that have been abandoned by successive waves of workers and... Read more
Publié le Fév 28 2002 par Robert S. Newman

4.0étoiles sur 5 The Women of Brewster Place
The Women of Brewster Place, by Gloria Naylor, published in 1982, is honestly one of the best books I've ever read. Read more
Publié le Oct. 24 2001 par Jessie (10/23/01)

4.0étoiles sur 5 Descriptive writing makes this work...
Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place is a relatively fast read about the lives of the women who live in a dilapadated housing complex on a dead end street. Read more
Publié le Oct. 2 2001 par amandaecho

1.0étoiles sur 5 how to really get depressed
If you really want to get seriously depressed, read this book. I kept reading to see what other reviewers had found so rewarding about this book. Read more
Publié le Sep 10 2001

3.0étoiles sur 5 Uneven.
Two problems: Naylor tries too hard to substitute genuine feeling with an explosion of mixed metaphors that often muddle the emotion being evoked. Read more
Publié le Mars 20 2001

5.0étoiles sur 5 A must read novel...
This book is one that must be savored like fine wine. It is an excellent read for anyone who loves to hear a good story, while simultaneously learning a lesson about human... Read more
Publié le Déc 6 2000 par J. Autrey

5.0étoiles sur 5 Shocking reality of Cultural Diversity
In this beautifully written, horrifically detailed book, one enters into the life of women who make do with what the hand they've been dealt. Read more
Publié le Nov. 23 2000 par Carrie

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