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In Search of Satisfaction

by J. California Cooper,

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Bookseller: Bliss Books. LLC (US)
Bookseller Inventory #: biblio40
Book condition: Very Good
Jacket condition: No Jacket
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0385467869
ISBN 13: 9780385467865
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Place: New York
Date published: 1995
Size: 5.25 x 8 x 1 inches
Dewey: 813/.54
Weight: 0.65 pounds

Book Description

Knopf Publishing Group : New York, 1995. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Throughout her writing life, J. California Cooper has garnered praise for bringing voice to her own special brand of spirited characters. "Cooper's power," the Washington Post declared, "comes from sticking to her instinct, which is to tell a story, plain and simple." She delves heartily into life's ironic and often bitter complications, offering up parable-like truths about good and evil, and the messy world in which they intertwine. In Search of Satisfaction unfolds in Yoville, "a legal township founded by the very rich for their own personal use." Ms. Cooper's beguiling history of the town is inextricably linked to one man, a freed slave named Josephus who fathers two children with two different women. Ruth is born to a hardworking mother; she seems destined for a life of material poverty enriched by family. Yinyang, Josephus's daughter by the alcoholic mistress of the manse, treads an uncertain path. She weaves in and out of spiritual awareness, alternately deceiving and being deceived by those who need her. In seeking the legacy left by their father, Ruth and Yinyang pull each other, their families, and their Yoville neighbors into a vortex of ever-powerful emotion. With the grace and imagination for which she has long been admired, J. California Cooper looks evil in the eye, and embraces her readers in the warmth of the hope of redemption.