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Book, 2000
Current format, Book, 2000, 1st Illinois pbk. ed, Available .
Book, 2000
Current format, Book, 2000, 1st Illinois pbk. ed, Available . Offered in 0 more formats
A controversial novel about the Black community in Harlem during the 1920s, criticized for its depiction of immorality and racist characterization of Black people. "Here upper-class elites discuss art in well-appointed drawing rooms; rowdy and lascivious drunks spend long nights in jazz clubs and speakeasies; and politically conscious young intellectuals drink coffee and debate "the race problem" in walkup apartments. At the center of the story, two young people - a quiet, serious librarian and a volatile aspiring writer - struggle to love each other as their dreams are slowly suffocated by racism."--Jacket.
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