description: This novel, in the words of its title character, is set in "the hermetic world of the old-fashioned black bourgeoisie--a group largely unknown to other Americans, which has carried on with cautious pomp for years in eastern cities and suburbs, using its considerable funds to attempt poignant imitations of high society, acting with genuine gallantry in the struggle for civil rights, and finally producing a generation of children educated in newly integrated schools and impatient to escape the outworn rituals of their parents."
language: English
title: Sarah Phillips
titlecomplete: Sarah Phillips
genres: Fiction, African American, Short Stories, Race, Womens, France, Novels, United States
ratings_count: 249
places: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
publisher: Penguin Books