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Product Description: Adultery, incest, and questions of racial identity simmer beneath the tranquil surface of suburban life in this novel, set in a small New Jersey town of the early 1900s. Lovely young Laurentine is obsessed with her "bad blood," inherited from a common-law interracial union...read more
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9780816116270 | Macmillan Library Reference, September 1, 1995, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: This novel by the author of Plum Bun and There is Confusion focuses on the lives of the beautiful Laurentine Strange and her vivacious younger cousin, Melissa Paul, in the early part of this century.
9780405185038 | Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1980, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: Adultery, incest, and questions of racial identity simmer beneath the tranquil surface of suburban life in this novel, set in a small New Jersey town of the early 1900s.
9780837119199, titled "Chinaberry Tree: A Novel of American Life" | Praeger Pub Text, June 1, 1969, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: A beautiful mulatto earns the respect of her white half sisters as she attempts to overcome the prejudices of a small American town
Paperback:
9780486493220 | Reprint edition (Dover Pubns, November 21, 2013), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Adultery, incest, and questions of racial identity simmer beneath the tranquil surface of suburban life in this novel, set in a small New Jersey town of the early 1900s.
Hardcover:
9781598530995 | Library of America, September 1, 2011, cover price $35.00
After her parents die, Angela Murray, a young mulatto, decides to move from Philadelphia to New York and live as a white woman
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9780807009192 | Beacon Pr, December 15, 1999, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: After her parents die, Angela Murray, a young mulatto, decides to move from Philadelphia to New York and live as a white woman
9789990039924 | Houghton Mifflin, December 1, 1999, cover price $0.02
Product Description: This ironically titled tale by an influential figure in African-American literature explores the tragic effects of color prejudice and self-hatred. Jessie Redmon Fauset's 1933 novel paints a haunting portrait of internalized racism with its depiction of a domineering mother whose determination for her children to pass as white leads to devastating results for the entire family...read more
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9780813546315, titled "Comedy, American Style" | Rutgers Univ Pr, October 1, 2009, cover price $72.00 | About this edition: Comedy: American Style, Jessie Redmon Fauset's fourth and final novel, recounts the tragic tale of a family's destructionùthe story of a mother who denies her clan its heritage.
9780816116287, titled "Comedy: American Style" | Reprint edition (G K Hall, December 1, 1995), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Olivia Cary, an African-American woman who appears white, finds her relationships with family members deteriorating as her search for money, class, and privilege leads her to leave for France
9780843400090 | Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1969, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Comedy: American Style, Jessie Redmon Fauset's fourth and final novel, recounts the tragic tale of a family's destructionùthe story of a mother who denies her clan its heritage.
9780404002572, titled "Comedy, American Style" | Ams Pr Inc, June 1, 1933, cover price $46.75 | About this edition: Comedy: American Style, Jessie Redmon Fauset's fourth and final novel, recounts the tragic tale of a family's destructionùthe story of a mother who denies her clan its heritage.
Paperback:
9780486493213, titled "Comedy: American Style" | Una rep edition (Dover Pubns, October 17, 2013), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This ironically titled tale by an influential figure in African-American literature explores the tragic effects of color prejudice and self-hatred.
9780813546322, titled "Comedy, American Style" | Rutgers Univ Pr, October 5, 2009, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Comedy: American Style, Jessie Redmon Fauset's fourth and final novel, recounts the tragic tale of a family's destructionùthe story of a mother who denies her clan its heritage.
9780783813981, titled "Comedy: American Style" | G K Hall, March 1, 1996, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Olivia Cary, an African-American woman who appears white, finds her relationships with family members deteriorating as her search for money, class, and privilege leads her to leave for France
9789995359317 | G K Hall, September 1, 1995, cover price $14.95
Product Description: Adultery, incest, and questions of racial identity simmer beneath the tranquil surface of suburban life in this novel, set in a small New Jersey town of the early 1900s. Lovely young Laurentine is obsessed with her "bad blood," inherited from a common-law interracial union...read more
Hardcover:
9780404002565 | Ams Pr Inc, June 1, 1931, cover price $46.75 | About this edition: Adultery, incest, and questions of racial identity simmer beneath the tranquil surface of suburban life in this novel, set in a small New Jersey town of the early 1900s.
Paperback:
9780783813943 | G K Hall, September 1, 1995, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Adultery, incest, and questions of racial identity simmer beneath the tranquil surface of suburban life in this novel, set in a small New Jersey town of the early 1900s.
Hardcover:
9780863580574 | Pandora Pr, September 1, 1985, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: After her parents die Angela Murray, a young mulatto, decides to move from Philadelphia to New York and live as a white woman
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9780807009093 | Reprint edition (Beacon Pr, September 1, 1990), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: After her parents die, Angela Murray, a young mulatto, decides to move from Philadelphia to New York and live as a white woman
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9780404113865 | Ams Pr Inc, June 1, 1924, cover price $23.50
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9781555530662 | Reprint edition (Northeastern Univ Pr, December 1, 1989), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Set in Philadelphia some 60 years ago, There Is Confusion traces the lives of Joanna Mitchell and Peter Bye, whose families must come to terms with an inheritance of prejudice and discrimination as they struggle for legitimacy and respect.
9789990045208 | Northeastern Univ Pr, December 1, 1989, cover price $0.02
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