Comedy, American style
By: Jessie Redmon Fauset ; introduction by Thadious M. Davis.
Series: African-American women writers, 1910-1940
Publisher: G.K. Hall
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: African American families -- Fiction.; African American women -- Fiction.; African Americans -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Comedy: American Style (1933), Fauset's fourth and last published novel, is the tragic story of how color prejudice and racial self-hatred result in the destruction of a family.

The work is filled with vivid characters: Olivia Cary, whose mania in passing for white poisons her relationships with those closest to her; her daughter, Teresa, compelled by her mother to make choices that ruin her life; Phebe Grant, a woman of integrity who refuses to deny her race; and Oliver Cary, rejected by a mother unable to accept the color of his skin and her own heritage.

A novel that received mixed reviews on its original publication, Comedy: American Style raises compelling and disturbing themes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.