{"product_id":"the-wedding-paperback-6","title":"The Wedding - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDorothy West\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn her final novel, \"a beautiful and devastating examination of family, society and race\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e), Dorothy West offers an intimate glimpse into the Oval, a proud, insular community made up of the best and brightest of the East Coast's Black bourgeoisie on Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWithin this inner circle of \"blue-vein society,\" we witness the prominent Coles family gather for the wedding of the loveliest daughter, Shelby, who could have chosen from \"a whole area of eligible men of the right colors and the right professions.\" Instead, she has fallen in love with and is about to be married to Meade Wyler, a white jazz musician from New York. A shock wave breaks over the Oval as its longtime members grapple with the changing face of its community.\u003cp\u003eWith elegant, luminous prose, Dorothy West crowns her literary career by illustrating one family's struggle to break the shackles of race and class.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publication of \"The Wedding by Dorothy West, the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance, was not only a landmark literary event, but a commercial success as well. Readers across America responded to West's delicat weaving of North and South, black and white, past and present in this \"fascinating and engrossing tale\" (\"People) of race and class set in Martha's Vineyard.In her first novel in forty-seven years, West offers a window into the rise of the black middle class as she lived it. Wise, heartfelt, and shattering, \"The Wedding is Dorothy West's crowning achievement, and one of the last books edited for Doubleday by the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDorothy West founded the Harlem Renaissance literary magazine \u003ci\u003eChallenge\u003c\/i\u003e in 1934, and \u003ci\u003eNew Challenge\u003c\/i\u003e in 1937, with Richard Wright as her associate editor. She was a welfare investigator and WPA relief worker in Harlem during the Depression. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Living Is Easy\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 1948 and remains in print. Her second novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Wedding\u003c\/i\u003e, was a national bestseller and literary landmark when published in the winter of 1995. A collection of her stories and autobiographical essays, \u003ci\u003eThe Richer, The Poorer\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared during the summer of 1995. She died in August 1998, at the age of 91.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 1996\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Wedding\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Upper Grades, 9-12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7.3\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 11\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42176631472263,"sku":"9780385471442","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/2cdd371b7cdb1c4ed256f783c6f5a33c.webp?v=1733391319","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-wedding-paperback-6","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}