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THE WEDDING
THE WEDDING
Author: DOROTHY WEST
25 years after her 1st novel comes this new novel by Harlem Renaissance's most distinguished surviving female author. The writing is very soft spoken but done with a rapier like insight to the problems created with secrets,especially family secrets. The conclusion is bound in the unfolding of this tale of perceived privilege based upon apparent...  more »
ISBN: 352523
Publication Date: 1995
Pages: 240
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Publisher: DOUBLEDAY
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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Helpful Score: 2
I recently saw the movie "The Wedding" on lifetime TV, wondering if there was a book in print. I did some research and found this book (same as the movie) written by Dorothy West and edited by Jaquelin Kennedy-Onais... The scene takes place in a family line in chronological order in vivid, memoriable drama from the hard times and stuggle of the African American slavery up to the 1950's when the Wedding is to take place... It is a prominate family struggle in race, power, and class...a good read, the end was shocking, and it left me wanting more...my reason for not rating it a 5-star...dg
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This is an interesting and complex book, exploring a small segment of 1930's (maybe 1940s) black culture in detail. A good read.
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A family history beginning with the eldest, already planning her funeral: run-a-way wedding, cruel men, good times and hard times weave a pattern of a family who stay bonded by love. Great story, easy but intelligent read.
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Very different from the Oprah Winfrey produced tv movie (with Halle Berry) but I can see the seed from which it began.


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