Defending Alice : a novel of love and race in the roaring twenties
(Large Print)
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Published
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2023.
ISBN
9798885786768
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Addison Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult Books | LT FIC STRATTON R. | On Shelf |
Batavia Public Library District - Large Type | LARGE PRINT FIC Stratton, Richard | On Shelf |
Chicago Heights Public Library - Stacks | LARGE PRINT STRATTON | On Shelf |
Oak Lawn Public Library - Large Type | LARGE TYPE FICTION STRATTON | On Shelf |
Subjects
LC Subjects
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Interracial marriage -- Fiction.
Jones, Alice Beatrice -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Marriage -- Annulment -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Fiction.
Novels.
Rhinelander, Leonard Kip -- Fiction.
Scandals -- Fiction.
Trials (Divorce) -- New York (State) -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Interracial marriage -- Fiction.
Jones, Alice Beatrice -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Marriage -- Annulment -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Fiction.
Novels.
Rhinelander, Leonard Kip -- Fiction.
Scandals -- Fiction.
Trials (Divorce) -- New York (State) -- Fiction.
More Details
Published
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2023.
Format
Large Print
Physical Desc
791 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
ISBN
9798885786768
Notes
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"Set in 1920s New York, an addictively readable, thoroughly entertaining historical novel involving sex and secrets, race and redemption, and power and privilege--based on a sensational real-life case that made international headlines--in which the marriage between a working-class black woman and the scion of one of America's most powerful white families ends in a scandalous annulment lawsuit. When Alice Jones, a blue-collar woman with at least one Black parent marries Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander, the son of one of New York's most prominent society families, the scandal rocks high society--and eventually sets the city afire when Kip later sues for an annulment, accusing Alice of having hidden her "Negro blood" and intentionally deceiving him that she was white. While New York society in the Roaring Twenties witnessed more than a few scandals, the real-life Rhinelander case set tongues wagging and became perhaps the most examined interracial relationship in American history. In Defending Alice, Richard Stratton reimagines this remarkable story, from the couple's courtship through their controversial marriage to their shocking divorce trial and its aftermath. Chronicled by Alice's attorney, brilliant trial lawyer Lee Parsons Davis, and told in flashbacks and entries from Alice and Kip's fictional personal diaries, this epic page-turner vividly brings to life the New York of a century ago--a world seemingly far removed yet tragically familiar to our own. Stratton brilliantly evokes this dazzling era in all its glamour and excess, and in retelling the Rhinelander story, explores issues of sex, race, class, prejudice, and justice that are as relevant today as they were a century ago when this headline-making trial took place"--,Provided by publisher.
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LARGE PRINT
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Stratton, R. (2023). Defending Alice: a novel of love and race in the roaring twenties (Large print edition.). Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Stratton, Richard. 2023. Defending Alice: A Novel of Love and Race in the Roaring Twenties. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Stratton, Richard. Defending Alice: A Novel of Love and Race in the Roaring Twenties Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Stratton, Richard. Defending Alice: A Novel of Love and Race in the Roaring Twenties Large print edition., Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2023.
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