The quest of the silver fleece
Subtitle: a novel
By: W.E.B. DuBois.
Edition: 1st Harlem Moon trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Harlem Moon
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
Subjects: Power (Social sciences) -- Fiction; African American women -- Fiction; Rejection (Psychology) -- Fiction; Social classes -- Fiction; Cotton trade -- Fiction; Swamps -- Fiction; Race -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: A controversial title of its time, the novel chronicles the complex interactions between Northern financing and Southern politics as it follows the story of free-spirited Zora, child of a Southern swamp, and her romance with Yankee-educated Bles, who will eventually face the opportunity to claim political power through corrupt means. In the middle of it all is the silver fleece, a crop of cotton rich with meaning and symbolism.