Eva's Man (Bluestreak)
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (818 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807063193 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 186 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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"well I'm glad I can say I have read it" according to ColorOrange. There is truth in most of the reviews, the author's writing style is something I have never read. By the time I got over half way through the book, I grew impatient to get to the end because of the redundancy, repetiveness, and slow to progress. And the endingwell I'm glad I can say I have read it. I gave well I'm glad I can say I have read it ColorOrange There is truth in most of the reviews, the author's writing style is something I have never read. By the time I got over half way through the book, I grew impatient to get to the end because of the redundancy, repetiveness, and slow to progress. And the endingwell I'm glad I can say I have read it. I gave 4 stars for the author's creativity; having the ability to write in this fashion. This is the first of her books I ha. stars for the author's creativity; having the ability to write in this fashion. This is the first of her books I ha. A woman destroyed Eva Medina Canada sits in a jail cell, reflecting on the ruin that is her whole life. From the time she was a little girl, Eva has been the target of random and senseless sexual assaults: Freddy with his popsicle stick, her neighbor Mr. Logan who attacked her in a stairwell when she was still a child; her mother's paramour; her cousin Alfonso; her husband twenty years her senior who treated her like a virtual prisoner. E. A Customer said Disturbing, provocative and original.. In her second novel, EvaÕs Man, Gayl Jones uses the lens of focused memory to weave a disturbing chronology of emotional and sexual abuse of a young girl. Immersed in a world of parental deceit and infidelity, of adult themes and repeated instances of unsolicited sexual experimentation and abuse, Eva Medina succeeds in detaching herself from the world around her. This self- protective isolation eventually erupts a
She attended Connecticut College and Brown University, and has taught at Wellesley College and the University of Michigan. Gayl Jones was born in Kentucky in 1949. Her other books include THE HEALING (1998 National Book Award Finalist and New York Times Notable Book of the Year) and many others.
Eva's Man is Gayl Jones's second novel.. Imprisoned for the bizarre murder of her lover, Eva Medina Canada recalls a life tormented by sexual abuse and emotional violence
'An American writer with a powerful sense of vital inheritance, of history in the blood.' -John Updike, The New Yorker