Sarah Phillips
By: Andrea Lee ; with a new foreword by Valerie Smith.
Series: The Northeastern library of Black literature
Publisher: Northeastern University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 117
Subjects: African American women -- Fiction.; Young women -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
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.'"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Originally published in the New Yorker.
Table of contents: title: In France; title: New African; title: Mother; title: Gypsies; title: Marching; title: Servant problems; title: Matthew and Martha; title: The days of the Thunderbirds; title: An old woman; title: Negatives; title: Fine points; title: A funeral at New African.