Gayl Jones: The Unicorn Woman, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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'Intricate, mesmerizing and endlessly inventive' Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Life of Church Ladies

It's the early 1950s, and Buddy Ray Guy, a Black army veteran, has returned from war not in glory, but into life under the Jim Crow laws.

As he drifts across the American South, Buddy reminisces on his freer days in post-war Europe, filled with love affairs and encounters with almost mythic characters: circus barkers, topiary trimmers, proto-feminists and bigots.

But then he comes across the Unicorn Woman - a silent, beautiful Black woman from a carnival freakshow with a single horn protruding from her forehead. From that moment on, he can think of no one else.

'The Unicorn Woman , infused with wordplay and humor, reveals her to be one of our greatest living authors' Boston Globe 'Through Buddy's picaresque journey, Gayl Jones shows her mastery of both dialogue and interiority . . . we find encounter after encounter with richly individuated characters' Times Literary Supplement