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(0)Dorothy West
1) The wedding
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
From Dorothy West, the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance, The Wedding is an intimate glimpse into African American middle class. Set on bucolic Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s, this is 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 gather for the wedding of the loveliest...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Living Is Easy, Dorothy West's first novel and one of only a handful of novels published by women during the Harlem Renaissance, tells the story of Cleo Judson, daughter of Southern sharecroppers, who is determined to integrate into Boston's black elite. Married to the "Black Banana King" Bart Judson, Cleo maneuvers her three sisters and their children-but not their husbands-into living with her, attempting to recreate her original family in...
Publisher
H.W. Wilson Co
Pub. Date
1933
Language
English
Description
Vol. 1 is "a cumulation in one alphabet of parts 1-6 of the Essay and general literature index ... published ... January 1931 ... [to] July 1933 ... 173 additional volumes have been indexed."
Includes "List of books indexed" (published also separately).