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Black girl / white girl

Paperback • 2007 • English • 1. edition

Black girl / white girl

By Joyce Carol Oates

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About the book

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 d...Show more

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Narrative theme: Social issues
Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism

Book details

ISBN

9780007232796

Publisher

HarperCollins

Published year

2007

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Black girl / white girl

Format

Paperback

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Paperback · 2011

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