Ebook {Epub PDF} The Healing by Gayl Jones

THE HEALING by Gayl Jones. reviewed by Johanna Isaacson. MONTHS AFTER READING IT, I’m still shivering over Gayl Jones’ novel, The Healing. Of course, the gothic autobiographical footnotes to the tale are spine tingling –after years spent as expatriate fugitives, the author and her husband returned to the U.S., where they soon attempted suicide, with Bob succeeding in slitting his throat and Gayl . Amidst much hype and hoopla award winning African-American writer Gayl Jones has delivered her first novel in twenty years. It lives up to the hype and deserves the hoopla. The Healing is the story of Harlan Jane Eagleton, a sharp-edged, questioning faith-healer cum beautician, race track habitue, rock star manager, and astute observer.5/5(5). The Healing is a lyrical and at times humorous exploration of the struggle to let go of pain, anger, and even love. Slipping seamlessly back through Harlan's memories in a language rich with the textured cadences of the black Southerner, Gayl Jones weaves her /5(12).

Grossman, Judith. "The Healing." Review of The Healing, by Gayl Jones. The Women's Review of Books 15 (March, ): Comprehensive review that notes Jones's consistent use of women's. The Healing should be cause for hope, sustenance and even celebration' - Valerie Sayers, New York Times. show more. ( ratings by Goodreads) Paperback. Virago Modern Classics. English. By (author) Gayl Jones. US$ The Healing, Corregidora, Eva's Man Paperback - January 1, by. Gayl Jones (Author) › Visit Amazon's Gayl Jones Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author. Gayl Jones (Author), Michael S. Harper (Introduction) out of 5 stars. 12 ratings.

by. Gayl Jones, via University Of Michigan. In brief, Gayl Jones’s The Healing is not a book of many faults. Rather, it’s a book of a few monstrous faults repeated ad nauseum on almost every page. I haven’t read Jones’s other novels such as the lauded Corregidora and Eva’s Man, so, to be fair, I won’t comment on her talent as a whole, but stick to the clichés, ill-wrought dialogue, bloated, pointless description, and intellectual dearth specific to the novel at hand. The Healing is a lyrical and at times humorous exploration of the struggle to let go of pain, anger, and even love. Slipping seamlessly back through Harlan's memories in a language rich with the textured cadences of the black Southerner, Gayl Jones weaves her story to its dramatic-and unexpected-beginning. The Healing, Corregidora, Eva's Man Paperback – January 1, by. Gayl Jones (Author) › Visit Amazon's Gayl Jones Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author. Gayl Jones (Author), Michael S. Harper (Introduction) out of 5 stars. 12 ratings.