Gorilla, My Love

by BAMBARA, TONI CADE

• ISBN13: 9780679738985
• ISBN10: 0679738983
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-06-30
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

In these fifteen superb stories, written in a style at once ineffable and immediately recognizable, Toni Cade Bambara gives us compelling portraits of a wide range of unforgettable characters, from sassy children to cunning old men, in scenes shifting between uptown New York and rural North CaroLina. A young girl suffers her first betrayal. A widow flirts with an elderly blind man against the wishes of her grown-up children. A neighborhood loan shark teaches o white social worker a lesson in responsibility. And there is more. Sharing the world of Toni Cade Bambara's "straight-up fiction" is a stunning experience.

Author Biography

Toni Cade Bambara is the author of two short story collections, Gorilla My Loveand Seabirds Are Still Alive, and a novel, The Salt Eaters. She has also edited The Black Woman and Tales and Short Stories for Black Folks. Her works have appeared in various periodicals and have been translated into several languages. She died in 1995.

Table of Contents

A Sort of Preface	xi
My Man Bovanne	1	(10)
Gorilla, My Love	11	(10)
Raymond's Run	21	(12)
The Hammer Man	33	(12)
Mississippi Ham Rider	45	(14)
Happy Birthday	59	(8)
Playin With Punjab	67	(10)
Talkin Bout Sonny	77	(8)
The Lesson	85	(12)
The Survivor	97	(22)
Sweet Town	119	(8)
Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird	127	(10)
Basement	137	(12)
Maggie of the Green Bottles	149	(12)
The Johnson Girls	161