THE WEDDING.
by West, Dorothy
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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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
- Waverley Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12128
- Title
- THE WEDDING.
- Author
- West, Dorothy
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- DOUBLEDAY. NY 1995
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- Black Literature/dorothy West/uncorrected Proofs/219
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