The Richer, the Poorer

by Dorothy West Narrated by Janina Edwards, JD Jackson, Karen Chilton, Robin Miles, Shayna Small

Overview

On the heels of the bestseller success of her  novel The Wedding, Dorothy West,  the last surviving member of the Harlem  Renaissance, presents a collection of essays and stories that  explore both the realism of everyday life, and the  fantastical, extraordinary circumstances of one  woman's life in a mythic time. Traversing the  universal themes and conflicts between poverty and  prosperity, men and women, and young and old, and  compiling writing that spans almost seventy years,  The Richer, The Poorer not only  affords an unparalleled window into the  African-American middle class, but also delves into the  richness of experience of "one of the finest writers  produced in this country during the Roaring  Twenties"(Book Page).

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Drawing on a career spanning almost 70 years, this selection of fiction and essays provides an overview of the work of one of the enduring figures of the Harlem Renaissance. (July)

Library Journal

True, West just made waves with her second novel, The Wedding (LJ 12/94)-published 46 years after she debuted with The Living Is Easy-but she is best known for her short stories. This last living member of the Harlem Renaissance here collects all her classic short works and augments them with some autobiographical sketches.

From the Publisher

"West writes like a social historian,  capturing significant moments that seem to alter  lives forever or change nothing at  all."—Los Angeles  Times

"Unforced perfection . . . beautifully cadenced.  West has shown the power of what is left  unspoken."—Chicago  Tribune

"Dorothy West is an epic  storyteller."—Quarterly Black Review of Books

Product Details

BN ID:	2940173368164
Publisher:	Penguin Random House
Publication date:	08/03/2021
Edition description:	Unabridged

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