The Richer, the Poorer: Stories, Sketches, and Reminiscences

The Richer, the Poorer: Stories, Sketches, and Reminiscences - Paperback

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The Richer, the Poorer: Stories, Sketches, and Reminiscences

The Richer, the Poorer: Stories, Sketches, and Reminiscences - Paperback

by Dorothy West
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Sale price  $20.00 Regular price 

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by Dorothy West (Author)

On the heels of the bestseller success of her novel The Wedding, Dorothy West, the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance, presents a collection of essays and stories that explore both the realism of everyday life, and the fantastical, extraordinary circumstances of one woman's life in a mythic time. Traversing the universal themes and conflicts between poverty and prosperity, men and women, and young and old, and compiling writing that spans almost seventy years, The Richer, The Poorer not only affords an unparalleled window into the African-American middle class, but also delves into the richness of experience of "one of the finest writers produced in this country during the Roaring Twenties"(Book Page).

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On the heels of the bestseller success of her novel "The Wedding, Dorothy West, the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance, presents a collection of essays and stories that explore both the realism of everyday life, and the fantastical, extraordinary circumstances of one woman's life in a mythic time. Traversing the universal themes and conflicts between poverty and prosperity, men and women, and young and old, and compiling writing that spans almost seventy years, "The Richer, The Poorer not only affords an unparalleled window into the African-American middle class, but also delves into the richness of experience of "one of the finest writers produced in this country during the Roaring Twenties"("Book Page).

Author Biography

Dorothy West founded the Harlem Renaissance literary magazine Challenge in 1934, and New Challenge in 1937, with Richard Wright as her associate editor. She was a welfare investigator and WPA relief worker in Harlem during the Depression. Her first novel, The Living Is Easy, appeared in 1948 and remains in print. Her second novel, The Wedding, was a national bestseller and literary landmark when published in the winter of 1995. A collection of her stories and autobiographical essays, The Richer, The Poorer, appeared during the summer of 1995. She died in August 1998, at the age of 91.

Number of Pages: 272
Dimensions: 0.66 x 8.54 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: June 20, 1996
ISBN9780385471466
Author Dorothy West
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJune 1996
LanguageENG- English
Pages272
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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