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Mosquito (Bluestreak)
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Mosquito (Bluestreak) Paperback - 2000

by Jones, Gayl

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An African-American truck driver who lives in a Southwest border town becomesinvolved with Mexican immigrants traveling on the "new underground railroad."

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  • Title Mosquito (Bluestreak)
  • Author Jones, Gayl
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 624
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Beacon Press, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000-02-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 080708347X.G
  • ISBN 9780807083475 / 080708347X
  • Weight 1.7 lbs (0.77 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.7 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 4.32 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
    • Ethnic Orientation: Latino
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Mexico, Psychological fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98027644
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Gayl Jones was born in Kentucky in 1949. She attended Connecticut College and Brown University; she has taught at Wellesley and the University of Michigan. Her critically acclaimed books include Corregidora, Eva's Man, White Rat, Song for Anninho, Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature, and The Healing, a National Book Award finalist.

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If you're acquainted with the lyrical tug of Alice Walker's The Color Purple, then you'll find something familiar and compelling about the narrative voice in Gayl Jones's newest novel, Mosquito. . . . Mosquito's voice is melodic, direct, and so conversational that it hooks us immediately and makes us surrender fully to the narrative. . . . To be sure, these observations crackle with wit and a joyful, almost child-like candor.--Quinn Eli, Philadelphia Inquirer

"Gayl Jones is the black writer we all want to be when we grow up . . . Mosquito is Gayl Jones unbound, but certainly not untethered nor without her still prodigious storehouses of language, craft, and storytelling prowess."--Greg Tate, Voice Literary Supplement

"Mosquito will amuse and confuse and instruct and pique and exhaust you. Sometimes the anecdotes are so good you call up friends to share them. There are a hundred times you want to shout, 'Right on!'"--Sandra Scofield, Chicago Tribune

"Most apparent and most surprising, is Jones's sense of humor. When she's at her best, her sly, subversive wit echoes Ishmael Reed at his most sarcastic."--Jabari Asim, Washington Post Book World

"Undoubtedly a literary tour de force."--James A. Miller, Boston Globe

About the author

Gayl Jones was born in Kentucky in 1949. She attended Connecticut College and Brown University, and has taught at Wellesley College and the University of Michigan. Her landmark books include Corregidora, Eva's Man, The Healing (a National Book Award finalist and New York Times Notable Book of the Year), Palmares (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction), and most recently, The Birdcatcher (National Book Award finalist).