The Wedding: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (735 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0385471440 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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A shock wave breaks over the Oval as its longtime members grapple with the changing face of its community.With elegant, luminous prose, Dorothy West crowns her literary career by illustrating one family's struggle to break the shackles of race and class.. An Oprah Winfrey Presents Mini-Series on ABC Network Television Starring Halle BerryIn her last novel, Dorothy West, an iconic member of the Harlem Renaissance, offers an intimate glimpse into African American middle class. Set on bucolic Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s, The Wedding tells the story of life in the Oval, a proud, insular community made up of the best and brightest of the East Coast's black bourgeoisie. Within 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
While younger writers obsess over the need to show rather than tell, the octogenarian West simply grabs you by the lapels and drags you headlong through a multigenerational saga of affluent, Martha's Vineyard blacks who are so fair in complexion that they're almost white. You won't mind, because there is greatness here as well as gripping storytelling. . And she does it all in something like 225 pages, sounding very much like Faulkner even when she's over the top, which is only now and then
"Dorothy West Fan" according to Ethel M. Powers. I loved the beginning of West's The Wedding. Her characters are always fully developed and her plots are intricate. However, being a woman of African descent and not inclined to play the skin-color game, I found the frequent references to skin tone tedious and pretty soon tired of the reading. That's not to say that I won't pick it up and finish it (I can't get away from several of the characters in the book). West knows . "Five Stars" according to Julia. Good book. Trinice Moses said Not what I expected!. I guess I should have read the book first and watched the made for tv film directly after. The book moved slow. I enjoyed the made-for-tv film immensely. Unfortunately the book did not hold my interest.Sorry.Trinice Speight-Moses