The Wedding: A Novel
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品牌: Dorothy West
基本信息出版社:Anchor (1996年1月1日)平装:256页正文语种:英语ISBN:0385471440条形码:9780385471442商品尺寸:13.2 x 1.4 x 20.3 cm商品重量:200 g品牌:AnchorASIN:0385471440商品描述内容简介 In her first novel in forty-seven years, Dorothy West, the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance, offers an intimate glimpse into African American middle class. Set on bucolic Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s,The Weddingtells 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 daughter, Shelby, who could have chosen from "a whole area of eligible men of the right colors and the right professions." Instead, she has fallen in love with and is about to be married to Meade Wyler, a white jazz musician from New York. A shock wave breaks 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.
媒体推荐"A fascinating and unforgettable tale."-People
"West is a wonderful storyteller, painting vivid and memorable scenes of the life and plight of African Americans from slavery to the fifties. The Weddingis an engrossing tale."-USA Today
"InThe Wedding, West brilliantly portrays the ferocity of class, race, and gender distinctions within family, groups, and generations."-Entertainment Weekly
"Dorothy West is an epic storyteller."-Quarterly Black Review of Books
"The Wedding's prose has biblical rhythms and echoes of William Faulkner. This novel of Dorothy West's later life is luminous, unexpected gift that should bring her a new generation of admirers."-The Washington Post
