Nigger heaven
By: by Carl Van Vechten ; introduction by Kathleen Pfeiffer.
Edition: 1st Illinois pbk. ed.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: African Americans -- Fiction; Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Here upper-class elites discuss art in well-appointed drawing rooms; rowdy and lascivious drunks spend long nights in jazz clubs and speakeasies; and politically conscious young intellectuals drink coffee and debate "the race problem" in walkup apartments. At the center of the story, two young people - a quiet, serious librarian and a volatile aspiring writer - struggle to love each other as their dreams are slowly suffocated by racism."--BOOK JACKET.