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The Wedding: A Novel
by West, Dorothy
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385471440
- ISBN 13
- 9780385471442
- Seller
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Tokyo, Japan
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About This Item
US: Anchor, 1996. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. In her final novel, Dorothy West offers an intimate glimpse into African Am erican middle class. Set on bucolic Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s, The Wed ding tells the story of life in the Oval, a proud, insular community made u p of the best and brightest of the East Coast's black bourgeoisie. Within t his inner circle of "blue-vein society," we witness the prominent Coles fam ily gather for the wedding of the loveliest daughter, Shelby, who could hav e chosen from "a whole area of eligible men of the right colors and the rig ht professions." Instead, she has fallen in love with and is about to be ma rried to Meade Wyler, a white jazz musician from New York. A shock wave bre aks 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.
Synopsis
Dorothy West founded the Harlem Renaissance literary magazine Challenge in 1934, and New Challenge in 1937, with Richard Wright as her associate editor. She was a welfare investigator and WPA relief worker in Harlem during the Depression. Her first novel, The Living Is Easy , appeared in 1948 and remains in print. Her second novel, The Wedding , was a national bestseller and literary landmark when published in the winter of 1995. A collection of her stories and autobiographical essays, The Richer, The Poorer , appeared during the summer of 1995. She lives on Martha's Vineyard.
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- Bookseller
- Infinity Books Japan
(JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000049858
- Title
- The Wedding: A Novel
- Author
- West, Dorothy
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385471440
- ISBN 13
- 9780385471442
- Publisher
- Anchor
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1996
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