Wedding

AvDorothy West

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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INTRODUCED BY DIANA EVANS 'A writer of huge compassion and acute observation, and also of dazzling style . . . Her work is more relevant than ever' DIANA EVANS'Timelessly cinematic, with painterly visual descriptions and pitch-perfect dialogue that ranges across class, region, race, age, and gender' EMMA GARMAN, PARIS REVIEW'It's as though we've been invited not so much to a wedding as to a full-scale opera . . . She brings down the house' NEW YORK TIMESYou're on the brink of turning your back on your family, your community, your race, all for some white-bread fantasy you don't half understand.On a summer weekend in 1953, the residents of the Oval - an exclusive middle-class Black community on Martha's Vineyard - are gathering for the wedding of Shelby Coles. The loveliest daughter of the Oval's most prestigious family, Shelby could have chosen any number of eligible men 'of the right colours and the right professions'. Instead she has fallen in love with a white jazz musician from New York - creating a shockwave that ripples across five generations of family history.Weaving together past and present, North and South, black and white, The Wedding is an audacious, wise and shattering portrait of American identity.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-01-22
Mått:126 x 196 x 18 mm
Vikt:196 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Virago Modern Classics
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN:9780349020846

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Dorothy West was a leading light of the Harlem Renaissance movement of the 1930s. She founded literary magazines Challenge and New Challenge, with Richard Wright as her associate editor. She was a welfare investigator and relief worker in Harlem during the Depression. Her first novel, The Living is Easy, was published in 1948. Her second novel, The Wedding, was published nearly half a century later, in 1995, and was a bestseller. This was followed by The Richer, The Poorer, a rich collection of stories and essays that spanned her long life. She died in 1998, at the age of ninety-one.

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West published her second novel, The Wedding (1995), at the age of 87. It received an ecstatic reaction ... 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