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Oreo / by Fran Ross.
LIBRA - Rare PS3568.O8433 O74 1974 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ross, Fran, 1935-1985, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Multiracial people--Fiction.
- Multiracial people.
- African American girls--Fiction.
- African American girls.
- New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- Jewish girls--Fiction.
- Jewish girls.
- Birthfathers--Fiction.
- Birthfathers.
- Race relations--Fiction.
- Race relations.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered pages, 212 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Greyfalcon House, [1974].
- Summary:
- This uproariously funny satire about relations between African Americans and Jews is as fresh and outrageous today as when it was first published in 1974.
- Born to a Jewish father and black mother who divorce before she is two, Oreo grows up in Philadelphia with her maternal grandparents while her mother tours with a theatrical troupe. Soon after puberty, Oreo heads for New York with a pack on her back to search for her father; but in the big city she discovers that there are dozens of Sam Schwartzes in the phone book, and Oreo's mission turns into a wickedly humorous picaresque quest. The ambitious and playful narrative challenges accepted notions of race, ethnicity, culture, and even the novelistic form itself.
- Contents:
- Part One: Troezen. Mishpocheh; The cube and the pip; Helenic letters; Pets, playmates, pedagogues; Tokens deposited; Ta-ta Troezen
- Part Two: Meandering. Periphetes; Sinis; Phaea; Sciron; Cercyon; Procrustes, Cephissus, Apollo Delphinius; Medea, Aegeus; Minos, Pasiphaë, Ariadne; Pandion
- A Key for Speed Readers, Nonclassicists, Etc.
- Notes:
- "Designed by F. D. R."
- "Jacket design by Ann Grifalconi."
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- Banks Collection copy has stamp "Joanna Banks, 7445 Calder Dr. Capitol Heights, MD" on top edge.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ross, Fran, 1935-1985. Oreo.
- ISBN:
- 0914870009 :
- 9780914870005
- 1555534643
- 9781555534646
- OCLC:
- 1031344
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