Black Girl White Girl - Softcover

Oates, Joyce Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007232799 ISBN 13: 9780007232796

Publisher: Fourth Estate, 2013

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-01-22 Pages: 448 Language: English Publisher:. Harper Collins Publ UK A controversial. painfully intimate depiction of race in America by the esteemed author of 'We were the Mulvaneys'.' Blonde 'and' The Falls' Fifteen years after the mysterious death of Minette Swift -. a 19-year-old black girl enrolled as a scholarship student in an exclusive liberal arts college - her former roommate Genna begins an unofficial enquiry into the traumatic event.In reconstructing the girls tumultuous freshman year at the college. Genna is led also to reconstruct her life as the daughter of a famous 'radical-hippie-lawyer' of the 1960s among whose clients were anti-Vietnam war protesters wanted by the FBI.What follows is a gripping and personal portrayal of black and white in America in the years of crisis following the end of the Vietnam War. and the ignominious exp...

About this title

About the Author:

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. Her most recent novel is A Book of American Martyrs. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

From AudioFile:

A white woman recalls her prickly black college roommate of 15 years previous, who died under mysterious circumstances. In the 1970s, Genna, the well-to-do daughter of a "radiclib" attorney and a former hippie, championed and endured the underprivileged preacher's daughter at a predominantly white institution, where racial tensions ran high. Not a murder mystery this, but the kind of social and psychological probing one expects from this provocative author. Anna Fields reads with the same sort of intelligence and precision that Oates gives her writing. But the first-person narrative seems to demand personalization, a deep immersion into the character and her emotions. Fields only reads--sounding accurate but detached. Y.R. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0007232799
• ISBN 13: 9780007232796
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 448