Imitation of life / Fannie Hurst ; edited and with an introduction by Daniel Itzkovitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hurst, Fannie, 1889-1968.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Single mothers--Fiction.

Single mothers.

Race relations--Fiction.

Race relations.

Women household employees--Fiction.

Women household employees.

Female friendship--Fiction.

Female friendship.

Mothers and daughters--Fiction.

Mothers and daughters.

African American women--Fiction.

African American women.

Restaurateurs--Fiction.

Restaurateurs.

Restaurants--Fiction.

Restaurants.

Widows--Fiction.

Widows.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xlv, 298 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, [2004]

Summary:

"Bea Pullman, a white single mother, and her African American maid, Delilah Johnston, also a single mother, rear their daughters together and become business partners. Combining Bea's business savvy with Delilah's irresistible southern recipes, they build an Aunt Jemima-like waffle business and an international restaurant empire. Yet their public success brings them little happiness. Bea is torn between her responsibilities as a businesswoman and those of a mother; Delilah is devastated when her light-skinned daughter, Peola, moves away to pass as white." -- back cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0822333244

9780822333241

OCLC:

58043539