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In the late 1800s, when the Williams family moves from the Bahamas to the U.S., young Bert is torn between his father's insistence that he become an educated man and his own desire to perform on stage. In 1896 Bert makes a fateful decision--he decides to perform in blackface. Although accused of reviling his race, intelligent and sensitive Bert becomes the mumbling "coon, " cakewalking his way to being the first black star in Ziegfeld's Follies.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A View of the Empire at Sunset is the sweeping story of the life of novelist Jean Rhys, author of Wide Sargasso Sea. Born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams in Dominica at the height of the British Empire, Rhys lived in the Caribbean for only sixteen years before going to England. A View of the Empire at Sunset is a look into her tempestuous and unsatisfactory life in Edwardian England, 1920s Paris, and then again in London. Her dream had always been to...
3) Foreigners
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
235 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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