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).

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 06/20/1996
ISBN: 9780385471466
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.50w x 0.66d

Review Citations: New York Times 08/18/1996 pg. 32
New York Times 12/08/1996 pg. 101
Publishers Weekly 05/20/1996