Cotillion - Brossura

Killens, John Oliver

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0345351649 ISBN 13: 9780345351647

Casa editrice: Ballantine Books, 1990

Riassunto

Can one novel be a romance, a plea for black power, a parable, a comedy, and a Mistering put-down of white society? THE COTILLION is all these and more. The heroine of John Killens's stinging satire is Yoruba Evelyn Lovejoy, a girl caught between two worlds: the world of 1960s Harlem where everything is black and hip and funky, and the uptight, plastic-covered furniture world her mother Daphne has created in their home. The Grand Cotillion offers Yoruba the chance of a lifetime an entree into bourgeois black society usually off-limits to girls from Harlem. But the Cotillion will prove a turning point in Yoruba's life, forcing her to make choices that her mother never dreamed of....

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Ballantine Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0345351649
• ISBN 13: 9780345351647
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile