Description
From the Book Back
Two women share a Mississippi household for fifteen years, rolling out pie crusts and making conversation. Cornelia is rich, white, and pampered, the mistress of the house, who oversees a seemingly perfect world of smooth surfaces and stubborn silences. Tweet, her housekeeper, is a poor, black, world-weary woman with a ghost-ridden past. As the years go by, Cornelia and Tweet each endure moments of uncertainty and despair; each, in her time of need, is rescued by the other. In the footsteps of Southern writers like Peter Taylor, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O’Connor, Ellen Douglas celebrates the resiliency of the human spirit in this story of two women bound by transgression and guilt, memory and illusion, gratitude and love.
Publishing Info
Can’t Quit You, Baby by Ellen Douglass. From the 9th printing by Penguin Books with 1988 copyright. The ISBN is 0-14-012102-1. It measures about 7-3/4″ x 5″ and has 256 pages.
Condition
See scan above. In very good condition with light storage on the covers. The spine has not been opened/creased and I can’t tell if this was read or not. The pages are toning naturally from age but are in very good condition. Name at top of first page; no other markings. From clean, smoke-free home.
Shipping
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