题名:	The Salt Eaters / ,
出版发行:	出版地：出版社： Vintage 出版日期： 1992
载体形态:	304
附注:	Paperback
内容提要:	Brief Description: Originally published: New York: Random House, 1980. Jacket Description/Flap: Set in Claybourne, a small town somewhere in the South, THE SALT EATERS is the story of a community of black faith healers who, searching for the healing properties of salt, witness an event that will change their lives forever. Publisher Marketing: A community of Black faith healers witness an event that will change their lives forever in this "hard-nosed, wise, funny" novel (Los Angeles Times). One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Set in a fictional city in the American South, the novel also "inhabits the nonlinear, sacred space and sacred time of traditional African religion" ( The New York Times Book Review). Though they all united in their search for the healing properties of salt, some of them are centered, some are off-balance; some are frightened, and some are daring. From the men who live off welfare women to the mud mothers who carry their children in their hides, the novel brilliantly explores the narcissistic aspect of despair and the tremendous responsibility that comes with physical, spiritual, and mental well-being. Review Citations: Black Issues Book Review01/01/2000 pg. 16 (EAN 9780679740766, Paperback) Essence07/01/2011 pg. 66 (EAN 9780679740766, Paperback) Wilson Fiction Catalog04/11/2019 (EAN 9780394507125, Hardcover)