The Living is Easy - Dorothy West

One of the few novels published by a black woman during the 1940s, THE LIVING IS EASY is the story of Cleo Jericho Judson, a sharecropper’s daughter who "never had to be taught how to hold her head high, how to scorn sin with men, and how to keep her right hand from knowing what her left hand was doing." Strong-willed, with a viper’s tongue and upper-class aspirations, Cleo leaves the South to seek her fortune in Boston. There she meets Bart Judson, "the black banana king," whose wealth and prestige allow Cleo to become a member of Boston’s early-twentieth-century black elite, into which one gains entry through money, lighy-skinned beauty, or both.

data wydania

1996 (data przybliżona)

liczba stron

347

słowa kluczowe

black upper classes, early twentieth century, Boston

język

angielski