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The Quarry

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

The Quarry

By Charles W. Chesnutt

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About the book

Was Donald Glover really what he seemed--a handsome, dedicated, and clever African-American star of the Harlem Renaissance, whose looks made him the "quarry" of a variety of women? Or could the secrets of his birth change his destiny entirely? Focusing on the culture of Harlem in the 1920s, Charles Chesnutt's final novel dramatizes the political and aesthetic life of the exciting period we now know as the Harlem Renaissance. Mixing fact and fiction, and real and imagined characters, The Quarry i...Show more

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ISBN

9780691606774

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2014

Language

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1

Original title

The Quarry

Format

Paperback

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