Can't Quit You, Baby

by Ellen Douglas

Book Overview

Rich, white Cornelia and poor, black Tweet share a Mississippi kitchen for 15 years, rolling out pie crusts, peeling figs, making conversation. As the years go by, each reveals her own crises, and in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140121021
• ISBN13: 9780140121025
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Attention Book Groups

This is the perfect book group selection. A wonderful book that provides so much to talk about. We all loved it!

beautiful, moving, deep

I found this book startling on so many levels - the emotional honesty about the characters, the intellectual honesty about race, the sheer fascination of Tweet's description of her youth and Cornelia's struggle to come back from alienation, the extraordinary vividness of the prose. The writer takes a big risk in making her own role explicit, but the pay-off at the end is tremendous. Just a great book.