Hot Johnny: (And the Women Who Loved Him) - Hardcover

Jackson-Opoku, Sandra

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 034542896X ISBN 13: 9780345428967

Verlag: One World, 2001

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Book by Opoku Sandra Jackso

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The life and times of Hot Johnny--saint and sinner, hero and villain, victim and victimizer--are seen through the eyes of the women who loved him, including Peaches, the prostitute who names him; his college soulmate Tree; Etta, the older woman who teaches him about love; Destiny, his young wife; and Johnsetta, the daughter he has never known. 30,000 first printing.

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f sun that can warm your skin for a moment but can't be captured, John the Baptist Wright has touched the lives of many women-- heart, body, and soul. Now, in this brilliant new novel by Sandra Jackson-Opoku, award-winning author of The River Where Blood Is Born, we hear from the women who gave Hot Johnny his heat.

Through the discerning eyes of those who have known and loved him, we watch Hot Johnny take a journey into the past, where a deeply guarded family secret lies hidden, waiting to be revealed. Along the way, pivotal moments of Hot Johnny's life begin to surface: his childhood struggles in the ghettos of Chicago, his rites of passage as a young gang member, his tragically short athletic career, his fantasies and obsessions, cruelties and compassion.

Each woman has a distinct voice and her own point of view. Among them is Destiny, the damaged young woman he married, but cannot save; Lola Belle, the white lesbian with something to prove and nothing to lose; Tree, the c

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• Verlag: One World
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 034542896X
• ISBN 13: 9780345428967
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256