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The Quarry
Chesnutt, Charles W.. Ed(S): Mcwilliams, Dean
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Description for The Quarry
Paperback. A 1928 novel on a mulatto torn between passing for white and sticking up for blacks. For most of his life Donald Glover, a handsome man of letters, confronts tempting offers to take the easy way out. Editor(s): McWilliams, Dean. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 318 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
Was Donald Glover really what he seemed--a handsome, dedicated, and clever African-American star of the Harlem Renaissance, whose looks made him the "quarry" of a variety of women? Or could the secrets of his birth change his destiny entirely? Focusing on the culture of Harlem in the 1920s, Charles Chesnutt's final novel dramatizes the political and aesthetic life of the exciting period we now know as the Harlem Renaissance. Mixing fact and fiction, and real and imagined characters, The Quarry is peopled with so many figures of the time--including Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, and Marcus Garvey--that it ... Read more
Was Donald Glover really what he seemed--a handsome, dedicated, and clever African-American star of the Harlem Renaissance, whose looks made him the "quarry" of a variety of women? Or could the secrets of his birth change his destiny entirely? Focusing on the culture of Harlem in the 1920s, Charles Chesnutt's final novel dramatizes the political and aesthetic life of the exciting period we now know as the Harlem Renaissance. Mixing fact and fiction, and real and imagined characters, The Quarry is peopled with so many figures of the time--including Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, and Marcus Garvey--that it ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
318
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
318
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691606774
SKU
V9780691606774
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About Chesnutt, Charles W.. Ed(S): Mcwilliams, Dean
Dean McWilliams is Professor of English at Ohio University. He is the author of books on Michel Butor and on John Gardner.
Reviews for The Quarry
"Students of American literature will be grateful to editor Dean McWilliams for making possible this better-late-than-never edition."
Laura Demanski, Baltimore Sun
Laura Demanski, Baltimore Sun