# The Unicorn Woman

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- Authors: [Gayl Jones](https://www.bookquiver.com/gayl-jones)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2024-08-20

## Description

'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

## Editions

### The Unicorn Woman

- Publisher: virago
- ISBN: 978-03-4901-693-1
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2025-08-14
- Language: en_GB

### The Unicorn Woman

- Publisher: beacon_press
- ISBN: 978-08-0701-962-7
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2025-05-08
- Language: en_US

### The Unicorn Woman

- Publisher: virago
- ISBN: 978-03-4901-691-7
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2024-08-20
- Language: en_GB

### The Unicorn Woman

- Publisher: virago
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-03-4901-690-0
- Published: 2024-08-20
- Language: en_GB