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Platitudes / Trey Ellis.
LIBRA Rare PS3555.L617 P57 1988 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ellis, Trey
- Series:
- Vintage contemporaries
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American novelists--Fiction.
- African American novelists.
- African American women novelists--Fiction.
- African American women novelists.
- Authorship--Sex differences--Fiction.
- Authorship.
- Fiction--Authorship--Fiction.
- Fiction.
- Fiction--Authorship.
- Authorship--Sex differences.
- Writer's block--Fiction.
- Writer's block.
- Social classes--Fiction.
- Social classes.
- Storytelling--Fiction.
- Storytelling.
- Sex role--Fiction.
- Sex role.
- Local Subjects:
- African American novelists--Fiction.
- African American women novelists--Fiction.
- Authorship--Sex differences--Fiction.
- Fiction--Authorship--Fiction.
- Writer's block--Fiction.
- Social classes--Fiction.
- Storytelling--Fiction.
- Sex role--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Black humor (Literature)
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, 183 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : photographs ; 20 cm.
- Edition:
- First Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 1988.
- Summary:
- This humorous novel tells the story of Dewayne Wellington, a failing black experimental novelist, and Isshee Ayam, a radical feminist author, collaborating on Dewayne's latest sexist comedy and talking about sex.
- Notes:
- "A Vintage original, July 1988"--Title page verso.
- Text photos copyright © by Lorna Simpson. Author photo copyright © 1988 by Kristine Larsen.
- Designed by Ann Gold.
- Cover design by Lorraine Louie. Cover illustration by Rick Lovell.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has book review cut from newspaper laid in.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ellis, Trey. Platitudes.
- ISBN:
- 0394754395
- 9780394754390
- OCLC:
- 17954289
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