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The Matter Is Life
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011
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A fourth collection of stories by the award-winning author.
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Street Date:
02/02/2011
Language:
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ISBN:
9780307778598
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APA Citation (style guide)

J. California Cooper. (2011). The Matter Is Life. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

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J. California Cooper. 2011. The Matter Is Life. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

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J. California Cooper, The Matter Is Life. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011.

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J. California Cooper. The Matter Is Life. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011.

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        Cooper's exuberant talent, displayed so effectively in Family , is somewhat muted in this uneven collection of eight deceptively simple slice-of-life parables. Author tour.

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        Cooper's exuberant talent, displayed so effectively in Family , is somewhat muted in this uneven collection of eight deceptively simple slice-of-life parables. In ``Vanity,'' a friend tells of the downfall of an egocentric beauty, whose passage from darling to victim is inadequately explained. Although Nona--the self-centered, superficial narrator of ``Friends Anyone?''--has a Ph.D. in psychology, she never understands why she is rejected by family and friends, even by Jana, the childhood pal who ends up raising the twins--one deaf, one blind--Nona conceived with Jana's fiance. In ``The Doras,'' the daughters of a poor black woman pursue her dreams and theirs, struggling along the way with poverty, prostitution and all kinds of abuse. Although the questions raised by these tales are important, the answers given are often trite. Sometimes overripe with symbolism, Cooper's trademark African-American dialect here makes it difficult to distinguish narrative voices.

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