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The Wedding
Taschenbuch von Dorothy West
Sprache: Englisch

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INTRODUCED BY DIANA EVANS

'You have only to read the first page to know that you are in the hands of a writer, pure and simple. At the end, it's as though we've been invited not so much to a wedding as to a full-scale opera, only to find that one great artist is belting out all the parts. She brings down the house' NEW YORK TIMES

On a summer weekend in 1953, the Coles family gathers in preparation for the wedding of its loveliest daughter, Shelby. The Oval is a proud, insular community made up of the best and brightest of the East Coast's black bourgeoisie and Shelby could have chosen from 'a whole area of eligible men of the right colours and the right professions'. Instead she has fallen in love with a white New York jazz musician and the 'blue-vein society' she belongs to struggles with the changing face of its community.

Through a delicate interweaving of past and present, North and South, black and white, The Wedding unfolds outward from a single isolated time and place until it embraces five generations of an American family. It is an audacious accomplishment, a monumental history of the rise of a black middle class. Wise, heartfelt and shattering, this landmark novel is Dorothy West's crowning achievement.

'Set on the Vineyard on a single summer weekend, The Wedding is narrated by an irresistibly droll omniscient voice that veers across centuries to trace the knotty, reverberating heritage of an affluent African American family . . . timelessly cinematic, with painterly visual descriptions and pitch-perfect dialogue that ranges across class, region, race, age, and gender' EMMA GARMAN, PARIS REVIEW

INTRODUCED BY DIANA EVANS

'You have only to read the first page to know that you are in the hands of a writer, pure and simple. At the end, it's as though we've been invited not so much to a wedding as to a full-scale opera, only to find that one great artist is belting out all the parts. She brings down the house' NEW YORK TIMES

On a summer weekend in 1953, the Coles family gathers in preparation for the wedding of its loveliest daughter, Shelby. The Oval is a proud, insular community made up of the best and brightest of the East Coast's black bourgeoisie and Shelby could have chosen from 'a whole area of eligible men of the right colours and the right professions'. Instead she has fallen in love with a white New York jazz musician and the 'blue-vein society' she belongs to struggles with the changing face of its community.

Through a delicate interweaving of past and present, North and South, black and white, The Wedding unfolds outward from a single isolated time and place until it embraces five generations of an American family. It is an audacious accomplishment, a monumental history of the rise of a black middle class. Wise, heartfelt and shattering, this landmark novel is Dorothy West's crowning achievement.

'Set on the Vineyard on a single summer weekend, The Wedding is narrated by an irresistibly droll omniscient voice that veers across centuries to trace the knotty, reverberating heritage of an affluent African American family . . . timelessly cinematic, with painterly visual descriptions and pitch-perfect dialogue that ranges across class, region, race, age, and gender' EMMA GARMAN, PARIS REVIEW

Über den Autor
Dorothy West's career spans eight decades. A leading light of the Harlem Renaissance movement of the 1930s, she founded literary magazines Challenge and New Challenge. Her short stories appear in numerous anthologies of 20th century African-American fiction. She died in 1998
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: XIV
226 S.
ISBN-13: 9780349012049
ISBN-10: 0349012040
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: West, Dorothy
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Maße: 195 x 126 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Dorothy West
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.08.2019
Gewicht: 0,195 kg
Artikel-ID: 117256107
Über den Autor
Dorothy West's career spans eight decades. A leading light of the Harlem Renaissance movement of the 1930s, she founded literary magazines Challenge and New Challenge. Her short stories appear in numerous anthologies of 20th century African-American fiction. She died in 1998
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: XIV
226 S.
ISBN-13: 9780349012049
ISBN-10: 0349012040
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: West, Dorothy
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Maße: 195 x 126 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Dorothy West
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.08.2019
Gewicht: 0,195 kg
Artikel-ID: 117256107
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