Romance in Marseille
Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited; Penguin Classics
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780143134220
Subjects: American literature
Description: "Buried in the archive for almost ninety years, Claude McKay's Romance in Marseille traces the adventures of a rowdy troupe of dockworkers, prostitutes, and political organizers--collectively straight and queer, disabled and able-bodied, African, European, Caribbean, and American. Set largely in the culture-blending Vieux Port of Marseille at the height of the Jazz Age, the novel takes flight along with Lafala, an acutely disabled but abruptly wealthy West African sailor"--