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Black Girl/White Girl - by Joyce Carol Oates (Paperback)

Name: Black Girl/White Girl - by Joyce Carol Oates (Paperback)
Brand: Ecco Press
SKU: 81011567
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Author(s): Joyce Carol Oates
304 Pages
Fiction + Literature Genres, Historical

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This painfully intimate depiction of race in America is a double portrait of "black" and "white" in America in the years of crisis following the end of the Vietnam War.

From the Back Cover

In 1975 Genna Hewett-Meade's college roommate died a mysterious, violent death partway through their freshman year. Minette Swift had been assertive, fiercely individualistic, and one of the few black girls at their exclusive, "enlightened" college--and Genna, daughter of a prominent civil defense lawyer, felt duty-bound to protect her at all costs. But fifteen years later, while reconstructing Minette's tragic death, Genna is forced to painfully confront her own past life and identity...and her deepest beliefs about social obligation in a morally gray world.

Black Girl / White Girl is a searing double portrait of race and civil rights in post-Vietnam America, captured by one of the most important literary voices of our time.

Review Quotes

"Masterful...Black Girl/White Girl is another success for its author." - BookPage

"This fast-moving yet intricately faceted novel is compellingly narrated...Oates' portraits of the two unhappy, misunderstood, unduly pressured and deviously resourceful young women are brilliant in their particulars and magnetizing in their far-reaching implications. Her gifts for physical detail, psychological twists and sinuous suspense are phenomenal..." - Chicago Tribune

"Joyce Carol Oates has never been shy about peering into the darkest corners of American culture. Black Girl/White Girl is no exception." - New York Times Book Review

Specifications

Dimensions (Overall): 8.0 Inches (H) x 6.62 Inches (W) x .76 Inches (D)

Weight: .61 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 304

Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres

Sub-Genre: Historical

Publisher: Ecco Press

Theme: General

Format: Paperback

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Language: English

Street Date: May 29, 2007

TCIN: 81011567

UPC: 9780061125652

Item Number (DPCI): 247-67-7571

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.76 inches length x 6.62 inches width x 8 inches height

Estimated ship weight: 0.61 pounds

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