The Wedding.
by West, Dorothy
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0385471432
- ISBN 13
- 9780385471435
- 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 #
- 3113264
- Title
- The Wedding.
- Author
- West, Dorothy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0385471432
- ISBN 13
- 9780385471435
- Publisher
- Doubleday.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- 0385471432
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