Ebook {Epub PDF} The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

At a Glance: full title The Women of Brewster Place. author Gloria Naylor. type of work Novel. genre African-America novel. language English. time and place written Late twentieth century, cerca the s, United States. date of first publication publisher Viking Penguin.  · Gloria Naylor was an African-American novelist whose most popular work, The Women of Brewster Place, was made into a film starring Oprah Winfrey. Naylor won the National Book Award for first fiction in for The Women of Brewster Place. Her subsequent novels included Linden Hills, Mama Day and Bailey's Cafe/5().  · Based on the novel by Gloria Naylor, which deals with several strong-willed women who live in a rundown housing project on Brewster Place in an unidentified eastern city; across three decades, they struggle against poverty, bigotry, and weak, troublesome men. — mts/10(K).

Author Gloria Naylor poses at her home in New York City, Oct. 9, Naylor, the author of the best-seller, "The Women of Brewster Place," has published her fourth novel, "Bailey's Cafe.". The year was Alice Walker's The Color Purple won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award; Gloria Naylor's debut novel, The Women of Brewster Place, won the National Book. The Women of Brewster Place is a novel told in seven stories. Of the seven stories, six are centered on individual characters, while the final story is about the entire community. The primary characters and the title characters of each chapter are all women and residents of Brewster Place. Brewster Place is a housing development in an unnamed city.

The Women of Brewster Place is a novel by Gloria Naylor that was first published in The Women of Brewster Place () is the debut novel of American author Gloria Naylor. It won the National Book Award in category First Novel. It was adapted as the miniseries The Women of Brewster Place and the television show Brewster Place by Oprah Winfrey 's Harpo Productions. The Women explores the lives of both men and women in an urban setting and examines relationships, both in terms of friendship and romantic love, including homosexual relationships. At a Glance: full title The Women of Brewster Place. author Gloria Naylor. type of work Novel. genre African-America novel. language English. time and place written Late twentieth century, cerca the s, United States. date of first publication publisher Viking Penguin.