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LocationOakland
Call NoF STR
TitleDefending Alice : a novel of love and race in the roaring twenties / Richard Stratton.
AuthorStratton, Richard author. (Richard H.),
Barcode527960
CollectionFiction
SummaryIn a novel based on a real-life case, 1920s New York society is set ablaze when Alice Jones, a working-class woman with at least one black parent, marries Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander, the son of a wealthy, prominent family, who makes international headlines after he sues for annulment, accusing her of hiding her "Negro blood."
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Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780063115460 : $28.99
International Standard Book Number 0063115468 : $28.99
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 813/.54 23/eng/20221101
Personal Name Stratton, Richard author. (Richard H.),
Title Statement Defending Alice : a novel of love and race in the roaring twenties / Richard Stratton.
Edition Statement First HarperVia edition
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York, NY : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2022.
Physical Description 566 p. Hardcover 24 cm
Content Type text rdacontent
Media Type unmediated rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
Summary, Etc. In a novel based on a real-life case, 1920s New York society is set ablaze when Alice Jones, a working-class woman with at least one black parent, marries Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander, the son of a wealthy, prominent family, who makes international headlines after he sues for annulment, accusing her of hiding her "Negro blood."
Subject-Personal Name Jones, Alice Beatrice Fiction.
Subject-Personal Name Rhinelander, Leonard Kip Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Scandals Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Interracial marriage Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Marriage Fiction. Annulment
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Trials (Divorce) Fiction. New York (State)
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term New York (N.Y.) Fiction. History 1898-1951
Index Term-Genre/Form Biographical fiction. lcgft
Index Term-Genre/Form Historical fiction. lcgft
Index Term-Genre/Form Novels. lcgft