{"product_id":"9780349016931-the-unicorn-woman-the-pulitzer-prize-finalist-for-2025","title":"The Unicorn Woman: The Pulitzer Prize Finalist for 2025","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Gayl Jones\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 192\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A literary giant' TAYARI JONES    A richly imaginative and moving new novel from the Pulitzer finalist and acclaimed author of Corregidora    A cook and tractor repairman, Buddy was known as Budweiser to his army pals because he's a wise guy. But underneath that surface, he's a man on a quest: looking for religion, looking for meaning, looking for love.    Returning from the Second World War not to a hero's welcome, but to the discrimination of the Jim Crow laws, Buddy stumbles across the Unicorn Woman, a carnival sideshow with a horn growing from her forehead, whose strange beauty he can't forget.    As he drifts across the South, from Kentucky to Memphis, Buddy encounters a dazzling array of almost mythic characters: circus barkers, topiary trimmers, landladies who provide shelter and plenty of advice for their all-Black clientele, proto feminists and bigots - dreaming all the while of the unforgettable Unicorn Woman herself.    With her inimitable eye for beauty, tragedy and humour, Jones offers a rich, intriguing exploration of the Black imagination in a time of frustration and hope.    'Her truth-telling, filled with beauty, tragedy, humour, and incisiveness, is unmatched' IMANI PERRY    'Gayl Jones is enjoying a dazzling late-career renaissance' SUZI FEAY, TLS    'Intricate, mesmerising and endlessly inventive' DEESHA PHILYAW","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67689396797594,"sku":"9780349016931","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0558\/1625\/7690\/files\/9780349016931-us-300.jpg?v=1791371432","url":"https:\/\/castlebooks.com.au\/products\/9780349016931-the-unicorn-woman-the-pulitzer-prize-finalist-for-2025","provider":"Castlebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}