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      The Wedding

      by Dorothy West
      Published
      Jan 1996
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      Suspense Suspense
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      256
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      In her final novel, "a beautiful and devastating examination of family, society and race" (The New York Times), Dorothy West offers an intimate glimpse into the Oval, a proud, insular community made up of the best and brightest of the East Coast's Black bourgeoisie on Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s.

      Within this inner circle of "blue-vein society," we witness the prominent Coles family gather for the wedding of the loveliest daughter, Shelby, who could have chosen from "a whole area of eligible men of the right colors and the right professions." Instead, she has fallen in love with and is about to be married to Meade Wyler, a white jazz musician from New York. A shock wave breaks over the Oval as its longtime members grapple with the changing face of its community.

      With elegant, luminous prose, Dorothy West crowns her literary career by illustrating one family's struggle to break the shackles of race and class.

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      First Edition Jan 1996 Anchor ISBN13 9780385471442 ISBN10 0385471440
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      Aug 2019 Little, Brown (UK) ISBN13 9780349012049 ISBN10 0349012040
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      Jan 1995 Doubleday ISBN13 9780385471435 ISBN10 0385471432
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      Dec 2009 Virago Press (UK) ISBN13 9780349012032 ISBN10 0349012032
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      Dec 2009 Anchor ISBN10 B00329UWGS
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      Jun 1998 Silhouette ISBN13 9780671535629 ISBN10 0671535625
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      May 1995 MacMillan ISBN13 9780786204311 ISBN10 0786204311
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