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The Wedding

by Dorothy West

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ISBN13: 9780385471442
ISBN10: 0385471440
Condition: Standard
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The publication of "The Wedding by Dorothy West, the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance, was not only a landmark literary event, but a commercial success as well. Readers across America responded to West's delicat weaving of North and South, black and white, past and present in this "fascinating and engrossing tale" ("People) of race and class set in Martha's Vineyard.In her first novel in forty-seven years, West offers a window into the rise of the black middle class as she lived it. Wise, heartfelt, and shattering, "The Wedding is Dorothy West's crowning achievement, and one of the last books edited for Doubleday by the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

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A "fascinating and engrossing tale" (People) by the last surviving member of the fabled Harlem Renaissance that explores universal truths of race, class, love, and social aspiration in a black enclave on Martha's Vineyard during the 1950s.

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Marilyn Stachenfeld, July 8, 2008 (view all comments by Marilyn Stachenfeld)
I couldn't put this book down! It's Henry James with a feminine touch, a deftly rendered account of four generations of a multiracial family whose beloved, beautiful, blonde-and-blue-eyed black daughter is on the verge of her wedding. West weaves conscious and unconscious choices into a tale that explodes in unexpected yet inevitable violence, a "wedding" of all the forces that have divided our country racially since its very beginning. This is a great novel!!!!
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780385471442
Author:
West, Dorothy
Publisher:
Anchor Books
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Espionage/Intrigue
Subject:
Afro-americans
Subject:
Massachusetts
Subject:
Espionage
Subject:
Martha's vineyard (mass.)
Subject:
Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) Fiction.
Subject:
Domestic fiction
Copyright:
Edition Description:
1st Anchor Books ed.
Publication Date:
January 1996
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
256
Dimensions:
8.02x5.24x.65 in. .48 lbs.

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