Sarah Phillips

by Andrea Lee, Valerie Smith (Other)

Overview

This novel, in the words of its title character, is set in "the hermetic world of the old-fashioned black bourgeoisie—a group largely unknown to other Americans, which has carried on with cautious pomp for years in eastern cities and suburbs, using its considerable funds to attempt poignant imitations of high society, acting with genuine gallantry in the struggle for civil rights, and finally producing a generation of children educated in newly integrated schools and impatient to escape the outworn rituals of their parents."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781555531584
Publisher:	Northeastern University Press
Publication date:	07/03/1993
Series:	Northeastern Library of Black Literature Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.47(d)

Editorial Reviews

"Andrea Lee's authority as a writer comes of an unstinting honesty and a style at once simple and yet luminous." —Susan Richards Shreve, New York Times Book Review

From the Publisher

"Andrea Lee 's authority as a writer comes of an unspinting honesty and a style at once simple and yet luminous." -- The New York Times Book Review

Susan Richards Shreve

"Lee seizes words and orders phrases with that appearance of effortlessness which always characterizes virtuosity." -- Washington Post Book World

Jonathan Penner