Black Girl White Girl
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2006
Fourth Estate Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-00-724133-0 (ISBN)
Fourth Estate Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-00-724133-0 (ISBN)
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A controversial, painfully intimate depiction of race in America by the esteemed author of ‘We Were the Mulvaneys’, ‘Blonde’ and ‘The Falls’.
Fifteen years after the mysterious death of Minette Swift – a 19-year-old black girl enrolled as a scholarship student in an exclusive liberal arts college – her former roommate Genna begins an unofficial enquiry into the traumatic event. In reconstructing the girls' tumultuous freshman year at the college, Genna is lead also to reconstruct her life as the daughter of a famous ‘radical-hippie-lawyer’ of the 1960s among whose clients were anti-Vietnam War protestors wanted by the F.B.I.
What follows is a gripping, painful and intimate depiction of 'black' and 'white' in America in the years of crisis following the end of the Vietnam War and the ignominious exposure and fall of President Richard Nixon.
Fifteen years after the mysterious death of Minette Swift – a 19-year-old black girl enrolled as a scholarship student in an exclusive liberal arts college – her former roommate Genna begins an unofficial enquiry into the traumatic event. In reconstructing the girls' tumultuous freshman year at the college, Genna is lead also to reconstruct her life as the daughter of a famous ‘radical-hippie-lawyer’ of the 1960s among whose clients were anti-Vietnam War protestors wanted by the F.B.I.
What follows is a gripping, painful and intimate depiction of 'black' and 'white' in America in the years of crisis following the end of the Vietnam War and the ignominious exposure and fall of President Richard Nixon.
Joyce Carol Oates is a novelist, critic, playwright, poet and author of short stories and is one of America’s most highly respected literary figures. She currently holds the post of Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University. Her most recent novel, ‘The Gravedigger’s Daughter’, was published in 2007.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.10.2006 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 125 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
| ISBN-10 | 0-00-724133-X / 000724133X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-00-724133-0 / 9780007241330 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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