The Wedding
- Kategoria:
- literatura piękna
- Wydawnictwo:
- Doubleday
- Data wydania:
- 1995-01-01
- Data 1. wydania:
- 1995-01-01
- Liczba stron:
- 240
- Czas czytania
- 4 godz. 0 min.
- Język:
- angielski
- ISBN:
- 9780385471435
- Tagi:
- powieść amerykańska--II poł. 20 w. Afroamerykanie elity Martha's Vineyard
"In her first novel in forty-seven years, Dorothy West, the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance, offers an intimate glimpse into the African American middle class. Set on bucolic Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s, The Wedding tells the story of life in the Oval, a proud insular community made up of the best and the brightest of the East Coast's black bourgeoisie.
Within this inner circle of "blue-vein" society, we witness the prominent Cole family gather for the wedding of their loveliest daughter, Shelby, who has fallen in love with and is about to be married to Meade Wyler, a white jazz musician from New York. A shockwave breaks over the Oval as its longtime members grapple with the changing face of its community..." [Sound Library]
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On the island of Martha's Vineyard, a very special community has flourished since the turn of the century, an exclusive summer colony of affluent vacationers. A proud, insular, nearly unassailable group, it is made up of the best and the brightest of America's black middle class. A world of doctors and ministers and lawyers and college presidents, it represents a side of the black experience known by too few, a side that is seldom considered. It is a world Dorothy West knows well, for it is her world, and in THE WEDDING she brings it to wonderful life.
Langston Hughes once called Dorothy West "a student of the human race," and THE WEDDING bears him out, for it contains some of the most unforgettable flesh-and-blood characters you will ever meet, including Shelby Coles, the daughter of a loveless marriage, whose engagement to a white jazz musician threatens to tear her family apart; Lute McNeil, a social-climbing Boston businessman who sees in Shelby and her family everything he could ever want for his three motherless daughters, and who sells his soul to try to win her; and Gram, the daughter of a plantation owner, whose own daughter broke her heart long ago by marrying an ex-slave, and who is kept alive only by bitterness.
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 extraordinary American family. It is an audacious accomplishment, a monumental history of the rise of a black middle class, written by the woman who lived it. Wise, heartfelt, and shattering, it is Dorothy West's crowning achievement.
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"Timelessly cinematic, with painterly visual descriptions and pitch-perfect dialogue that ranges across class, region, race, age, and gender" [Emma Garman, Paris Review]
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