Women's Fiction, African Americans - Fiction & Literature, Phases of Life - Fiction
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Overview
This novel, in the words of its title character, is set in "the hermetic world of the old-fashioned black bourgeoisie--a group largely unknown to other Americans, which has carried on with cautious pomp for years in eastern cities and suburbs, using its considerable funds to attempt poignant imitations of high society, acting with genuine gallantry in the struggle for civil rights, and finally producing a generation of children educated in newly integrated schools and impatient to escape the outworn rituals of their parents."Synopsis
"Andrea Lee's authority as a writer comes of an unstinting honesty and a style at once simple and yet luminous." — New York Times Book Review
Jonathan Penner
"Lee seizes words and orders phrases with that appearance of effortlessness which always characterizes virtuosity." -- Washington Post Book World
Editorials
From the Publisher
"Andrea Lee's authority as a writer comes of an unstinting honesty and a style at once simple and yet luminous." --Susan Richards Shreve, New York Times Book ReviewSusan Richards Shreve
"Andrea Lee 's authority as a writer comes of an unspinting honesty and a style at once simple and yet luminous." -- The New York Times Book ReviewJonathan Penner
"Lee seizes words and orders phrases with that appearance of effortlessness which always characterizes virtuosity." -- Washington Post Book WorldBook Details
Published
July 1, 1993
Publisher
Northeastern University Press
Pages
144
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781555531584