The Wedding
$27.46
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
27 August 2019
Summary
With a new introduction by 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
Set on a 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 brightest of the East Coast’s black bourgeoisie. Within this inner circle of ‘blue-vein so…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349012049 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349012040 |
| Author: | Dorothy West, Diana Evans |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 27 August 2019 |
| Weight: | 190g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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In The Wedding, West brilliantly portrays the ferocity of class, race, and gender distinctions within family, groups, and generations - Entertainment Weekly
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 - PAris ReviewThe tranquility of a late summer weekend in 1953 is shattered by a tragic accident in this spare, affecting novel by one of the last surviving members of the Harlem Renaissance … Through the ancestral histories of the Coles family, West subtly reveals the ways in which color can burden and codify behavior. The author makes her points with a delicate hand, maneuvering with confidence and ease through a sometimes incendiary subject … a triumph. - Publisher’s WeeklyYou 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 TimesWest is a wonderful storyteller, painting vivid and memorable scenes of the life and plight of African Americans from slavery to the fifties. The Wedding is an engrossing tale - USA TodayAbout The Author
Dorothy West
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.
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