The Richer, the Poorer: Stories, Sketches, and Reminiscences - Brossura

West, Dorothy

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ISBN 10: 0385471467 ISBN 13: 9780385471466

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1996

Riassunto

A collection of essays and stories spans seventy years in a woman's life and offers a perspective on the African-American middle class during the 1920s. Reprint.

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Recensione

"West writes like a social historian,  capturing significant moments that seem to alter  lives forever or change nothing at  all."--Los Angeles  Times

"Unforced perfection . . . beautifully cadenced.  West has shown the power of what is left  unspoken."--Chicago  Tribune

"Dorothy West is an epic  storyteller."--Quarterly Black Review of Books

L'autore

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 died in August 1998, at the age of 91.

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• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0385471467
• ISBN 13: 9780385471466
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272