BLACK GIRL/WHITE GIRL
de Oates, Joyce Carol
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Fine/Fine
- Librería
-
Canandaigua, New York, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
New York: HarperCollins, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This is Oates' portrait of race relations and civil rights in the 1970s as the Vietnam War wound down. It features a white girl -- Genna Hewett-Meade -- beginning a personal inquiry into the violent, mysterious death of her roommate, a black girl named Minette Swift, fifteen years after it happened at an exclusive women's college near Philadelphia. In reconstructing the events leading to her friend's death, Genna is forced to confront her identity in the social contexts of 1975 America. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. Not remaindered. The dustjacket shows no more than a slight bit of surface and edgewear, no tears, no chipping or creasing, not price-clipped. A collectable copy.
Sinopsis
Fifteen years ago, in 1975, Genna Hewett-Meade's college roommate died a mysterious, violent, terrible death. Minette Swift had been a fiercely individualistic scholarship student, an assertive—even prickly—personality, and one of the few black girls at an exclusive women's liberal arts college near Philadelphia. By contrast, Genna was a quiet, self-effacing teenager from a privileged upper-class home, self-consciously struggling to make amends for her own elite upbringing. When, partway through their freshman year, Minette suddenly fell victim to an increasing torrent of racist harassment and vicious slurs—from within the apparent safety of their tolerant, "enlightened" campus—Genna felt it her duty to protect her roommate at all costs.Now, as Genna reconstructs the months, weeks, and hours leading up to Minette's tragic death, she is also forced to confront her own identity within the social framework of that time. Her father was a prominent civil defense lawyer whose radical politics—including defending anti-war terrorists wanted by the FBI—would deeply affect his daughter's outlook on life, and later challenge her deepest beliefs about social obligation in a morally gray world.Black Girl / White Girl is a searing double portrait of "black" and "white," of race and civil rights in post-Vietnam America, captured by one of the most important literary voices of our time.
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Detalles
- Librería
- H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 004768
- Título
- BLACK GIRL/WHITE GIRL
- Autor
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Editorial
- HarperCollins
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2006
- Palabras clave
- MODERN NOVEL, FIRST EDITION, RACE RELATIONS, CRIME, CIVIL RIGHTS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN,
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Crime; Fine Literature; African American;
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
Canandaigua, New York
Sobre H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller, has been serving customers on the internet since 2003. We specialize in modern American and English fiction and in mystery and detective thrillers, as well as art and art history. We also have a growing selection of mid-to-late 19th century history and literature. Nearly all our modern and contemporary books are first editions or otherwise collectable.
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
