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Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime

Stories

Stories

By J. California Cooper

By J. California Cooper

By J. California Cooper

By J. California Cooper

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Sep 01, 1996 | ISBN 9780385467889

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Dec 29, 2010 | ISBN 9780307778611

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    About Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime

    Whether through her stories or her legendary readings, J. California Cooper has an uncanny ability to reach out to readers like an old and dear friend.  Her characters are plain-spoken and direct: simple people for whom life, despite its ever-present struggles, is always worth the journey.

    In Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime, Cooper’s characteristic themes of romance, heartbreak, struggle and faith resonate.  We meet Darlin, a self-proclaimed femme fatale who uses her wiles to try to find a husband; MLee, whose life seems to be coming to an end at the age of forty until she decides to set out and see if she can make a new life for herself; Kissy and Buddy, both trying and failing to find them until they finally meet each other; and Aberdeen, whose daughter Uniqua shows her how to educate herself and move up in the world.

    These characters and others offer inspiration, laughter, instruction and pure enjoyment in what is one of J. California Cooper’s finest story collections.

    About Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime

    Whether through her stories or her legendary readings, J. California Cooper has an uncanny ability to reach out to readers like an old and dear friend.  Her characters are plain-spoken and direct: simple people for whom life, despite its ever-present struggles, is always worth the journey.

    In Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime, Cooper’s characteristic themes of romance, heartbreak, struggle and faith resonate.  We meet Darlin, a self-proclaimed femme fatale who uses her wiles to try to find a husband; MLee, whose life seems to be coming to an end at the age of forty until she decides to set out and see if she can make a new life for herself; Kissy and Buddy, both trying and failing to find them until they finally meet each other; and Aberdeen, whose daughter Uniqua shows her how to educate herself and move up in the world.

    These characters and others offer inspiration, laughter, instruction and pure enjoyment in what is one of J. California Cooper’s finest story collections.

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    Also by J. California Cooper

    Life Is Short But Wide
    Wild Stars Seeking Midnight Suns
    Some People, Some Other Place
    The Future Has a Past
    The Wake of the Wind
    See all books by J. California Cooper

    About J. California Cooper

    J. California Cooper is the author of four novels and six collections of stories. She was honored as Black Playwright of the Year, and her work received the American Book Award, the James Baldwin Writing Award, and the Literary Lion… More about J. California Cooper

    About J. California Cooper

    J. California Cooper is the author of four novels and six collections of stories. She was honored as Black Playwright of the Year, and her work received the American Book Award, the James Baldwin Writing Award, and the Literary Lion… More about J. California Cooper

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Anchor
    Sep 01, 1996 | 288 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780385467889

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Anchor
    Dec 29, 2010 | 288 Pages | ISBN 9780307778611

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    Praise

    "Cooper’s stories beckon. It is if she is patting the seat next to her, enticing us to come sit and listen as she tells complex tales about women, often poor women, chasing dreams of love, a house and a family."
    –Ms.

    "[Cooper] knows how to ‘talk’ her stories to us, as though each of them is told by a kindly and concerned friend…The sound of them is lovely, memorable, haunting."
    –San Francisco Chronicle

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