Glorious
New York : Akashic, [2010]
Format: Book
Description: 239 pages ; 21 cm
Set against the backdrops of the Jim Crow South, the Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights era, the new historical novel by the acclaimed author of Sugar is the story of Easter Venetta Bartlett, a fictional Harlem Renaissance writer whose tumultuous path to success, ruin and, ultimately, revival, offers a candid and true portrait of the American experience in all its beauty and cruelty. Based on years of research, this heart-wrenching fictional account is given added resonance by factual events coupled with real and imagined larger-than-life characters.
Subjects:
African American women authors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Harlem Renaissance -- Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
African American women authors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Harlem Renaissance -- Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
ISBN:
1936070111 (pbk.)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F McFadden | Southeast | Fiction | In |