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In her first novel in forty-seven years, Dorothy West, the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance, offers an intimate glimpse into the African American upper middle class. Set on bucolic Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s, The Wedding tells the story of life in the Oval, a proud, insular community made up of the best and brightest of the East Coast's black bourgeoisie.
Within this inner circle of "blue-vein society," we witness the prominent Coles family as they gather for the wedding of their loveliest daughter, Shelby, who could have chosen from "a whole area of eligible men of the right colors and the right professions." Instead, she has fallen in love with and is about to be married to Meade Wyler, a white jazz musician from New York. A shock wave breaks over the Oval as its longtime members grapple with the changing face of its community.
With elegant, luminous prose, Dorothy West crowns her literary career by illustrating one family's struggle to break the shackles of race and class.
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Dorothy West was born in Boston in 1907 and moved to New York in the 1920s to take part in the flowering of African American arts and letters that would come to be called the Harlem Renaissance. Friend and colleague to Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen, West founded the influential magazine Challenge in 1934, and in 1937 she started New Challenge, with Richard Wright as her associate editor. Her first novel, The Living is Easy, appeared in 1948, and her short stories are widely anthologized. A collection of short stories and autobiographical pieces, The Richer, The Poorer, was published by Doubleday last summer. She has lived year-round on Martha's Vineyard since 1943.
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- EditoreSimon & Schuster
- Data di pubblicazione1998
- ISBN 10 0671535625
- ISBN 13 9780671535629
- RilegaturaAudio Cassetta
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Deep Waters (Silhouette Special Edition # 62)
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New York: Silhouette, 1982, New York
(1982)
ISBN 10: 0671535625
ISBN 13: 9780671535629
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Descrizione libro Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Good. Mass Market Paperback. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. This mass market sized paperback Silhouette Special Edition romance # 62 is in good condition. The covers are shiny with minor wear on the faces and around the edges but look good. The spine is tight with light creases showing and a very light tilt. The pages are mostly white with little wear and no marks. 250 pages. CHEAP SHIPPING MEDIA MAIL!. Codice articolo 009059
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Descrizione libro Condizione: As New. Like New condition. cassette. Case Like New. Shrink wrapped! Case contains cut-out. 2 cassettes. Quality guaranteed! In original artwork/packaging unless otherwise noted. Codice articolo C08L-01612
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