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CAUCASIA.
by Senna, Danzy
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)/fine
- Seller
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About This Item
New York:: Riverhead Books,, 1998.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. SIGNED on the title page. Author's very highly praised first novel - with comments from such diverse writers as Thomas Kenneally (who called her a 'superb new writer'), James McBride, Geoffrey Wolff, Chang-rae Lee and Veronica Chambers ('Danzy Senna is fierce. A race woman with a sense of humor. A homegirl with a searing intellect.') The story of a young woman - daughter of a black father and a white mother, intellectuals and activists in Boston's civil rights movement - who winds up being separated from her sister when her father and mother part - as the lighter sister, she remains with the mother when she goes underground, while her darker sister is taken to Brazil with her father and his new black girlfriend. 353 pp.
Synopsis
Danzy Senna's first novel, Caucasia , was the winner of the Book-of-the-Month Club's Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and an American Library Association Alex Award. It was a finalist for an International IMPAC Dublin Award, and was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. Her short fiction and essays have been widely anthologized. She is a recipient of the 2002 Whiting Writers' Award and currently holds the Jenks Chair of Contemporary American/Letters at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37584
- Title
- CAUCASIA.
- Author
- Senna, Danzy
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1998.
- Keywords
- interracial family, new,
- Bookseller catalogs
- African American Literature;
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