Getting Mother's Body: A Novel
by Parks, Suzan-Lori
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 1400060222
- ISBN 13
- 9781400060221
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Suzan-Lori Parks is a novelist, playwright, songwriter, and screenwriter. She was the recipient of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Topdog/ Underdog, as well as a 2001 MacArthur “genius grant.” Her other plays include Fucking A, In the Blood, The America Play, Venus, and The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World. Her first feature film, Girl 6, was directed by Spike Lee. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, where she studied with James Baldwin, she has taught creative writing in universities across the country, including at the Yale School of Drama, and she heads the Dramatic Writing Program at CalArts. She is currently writing an adaptation of Toni Morrison’s novel Paradise for Oprah Winfrey, and the musical Hoopz for Disney. She lives in Venice Beach, California, with her husband, blues musician Paul Scher, and their pit bull, Lambchop. From the Hardcover edition.
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- 121744
- Title
- Getting Mother's Body: A Novel
- Author
- Parks, Suzan-Lori
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1400060222
- ISBN 13
- 9781400060221
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003-05-05
- Size
- 6x0x9
- X weight
- 18 oz
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