Author

Publication

1995 - Doubleday, New York, United States

Language

English

Word Count

60,000 words, Guess

Page Count

240 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivewedding00west
  • ISBN-100385471432
  • ISBN-139780385471435
  • LibraryThing64839
  • Goodreads1625001
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Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3545.E82794

Description

The publication of The Wedding by Dorothy West, the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance, was not only a landmark literary event, but a commercial success as well. Readers across America responded to West's delicat weaving of North and South, black and white, past and present in this "fascinating and engrossing tale" (People) of race and class set in Martha's Vineyard.In her first novel in forty-seven years, West offers a window into the rise of the black middle class as she lived it. Wise, heartfelt, and shattering, The Wedding is Dorothy West's crowning achievement, and one of the last books edited for Doubleday by the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Other Editions

  • The weddingDoubleday1995-01-01

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