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Dead Piano (Old School Books) Paperback - 1997
by Van Dyke, Henry
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- Title Dead Piano (Old School Books)
- Author Van Dyke, Henry
- Binding Paperback
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 132
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, NY, London
- Date 1997-01-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0393315428.G
- ISBN 9780393315424 / 0393315428
- Weight 0.38 lbs (0.17 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.57 x 0.39 in (21.08 x 14.15 x 0.99 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects New York (N.Y.), Adventure stories
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96031642
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
From the rear cover
The Blakes are a prosperous black bourgeois family comfortably ensconced in St. Albans, Queens. Finley is a successful doctor; Olga, his wife, can almost pass for white and is anything but comfortable about her race; and their spoiled daughter, Sophie, has just been accepted at Bennington. Their complacent lives are shattered one September night when they are taken hostage in their own home by two black militants, members of a group called "The Committee". Over the course of twelve harrowing hours both sides will strip themselves to the emotional bone in this psychologically charged 1969 melodrama, which crosses Edward Albee with Amiri Baraka with "The Desperate Hours" to devastating effect.