The Sweet Hell Inside: A Family History
by Ball, Edward
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 068816840X
- ISBN 13
- 9780688168407
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New York: William Morrow; HarperCollinsPublishers, 2001. xv, 384 pages, [32] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Small remainder mark (ink dot)/tail edge. Fine DJ. A near-fine copy of the first printing. "The Sweet Hell Inside recounts the lives of the Harleston family of South Carolina, the progeny of a Southern gentleman and his slave who cast off their blemished roots and achieved affluence in part through a surprisingly successful funeral parlor business. Their wealth afforded the Harlestons the comfort of chauffeurs, tailored clothes, and servants whose skin was darker than theirs. It also launched the family into a generation of glory as painters, performers, and photographers in the 'high yellow' society of America's colored upper class. The Harlestons' remarkable one-hundred-year journey spans the waning days of Reconstruction, the precious art world of the early 1900s, the back alleys of the Jazz Age, and the dawn of the civil rights movement. Enhanced by the recollections of the family's archivist, eighty-four-year-old Edwina Harleston Whitlock - whose bloodline the author shares - The Sweet Hell Inside features a portrait artist whose subjects included industrialist Pierre Du Pont; a black classical composer in the Lost Generation of 1920s Paris; an orphanage founder who created a famous brass band from the ranks of his abandoned waifs, a number of whom went on to burgeoning careers in jazz; and a Harleston mistress who doubled as an abortionist." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo.
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- Title
- The Sweet Hell Inside: A Family History
- Author
- Ball, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 068816840X
- ISBN 13
- 9780688168407
- Publisher
- William Morrow; HarperCollinsPublishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Size
- 8vo
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