Black Girl/White Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
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 lead also to reconstruct her life as the daughter of a famous 'radical-hippie-lawyer' of the 1960s among whose clients were anti-Vietnam War protestors wanted by the F.B.I. What follows is a gripping, painful and intimate depiction of 'black' and 'white' in America in the years of crisis following the end of the Vietnam War and the ignominious exposure and fall of President Richard Nixon.
Paperback | 448 pages
153 x 234mm
02 Oct 2006
HarperCollins Publishers
FOURTH ESTATE LTD
London, United Kingdom
000724133X
9780007241330
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including very minimal scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The back cover has very thin creasing that runs from the top to the bottom of the cover, but is barely noticeable. All pages are undamaged, with very minimal creasing but no tearing. No pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. Good, clean, strong copy.