Love Story Black
A Novel
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Love Story Black
Narrated by:
Dominic Hoffman
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Narrated by:
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Dominic Hoffman
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Written by:
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William Demby
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Ishmael Reed - introduction
About this listen
“One of the great novelists of the last 100 years.” —Ishmael Reed, author of Mumbo Jumbo
In the midst of the tumultuous 1970s, Edwards, a freelance writer and Black Studies professor at a small college in New York City, is assigned a story for New Black Woman magazine: a profile of Mona Pariss, an aging former singer whose popularity once rivaled Josephine Baker’s. With his creditors at the door, Professor Edwards beats a path to the crumbling Harlem apartment house where Mona Pariss, once the toast of Europe for her singing, now lives in squalid obscurity. As his interviews progress, Edwards is gradually drawn into Mona’s strange world. At the same time, he finds himself entering into an affair with Hortense, a beautiful young assistant at New Black Woman. From revolutionary downtown poetry readings to a hospital bed on the Continent and back, becoming entangled in the lives of both women might turn Edwards’s bourgeois life upside down for good. A smart satire with a biting wit, Love Story Black is an unmissable novel by one of the masters of midcentury American fiction.
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Critic Reviews
“Thoroughly engaging. . . . Witty and sensible.” —Kirkus Reviews
“[Demby is] a true artist.” —Arna Bontemps, author of Black Thunder
“One of the great novelists of the last 100 years.”—Ishmael Reed, author of Mumbo Jumbo
“[Demby is] a true artist.” —Arna Bontemps, author of Black Thunder
“One of the great novelists of the last 100 years.”—Ishmael Reed, author of Mumbo Jumbo
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