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Belle Greene / Alexandra Lapierre ; translated from the French by Tina Kover.
Van Pelt Library PQ2672.A589 B45 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lapierre, Alexandra, author.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Greene, Belle da Costa--Fiction.
- Greene, Belle da Costa.
- Pierpont Morgan Library--Fiction.
- Pierpont Morgan Library.
- Passing (Identity)--United States--Fiction.
- Passing (Identity).
- African American women librarians--Fiction.
- African American women librarians.
- Racism against Black people--United States--Fiction.
- Racism against Black people.
- New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.).
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 524 pages, 16 unnumbered of plates : illustration (some color) ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Europa Editions, 2022.
- Summary:
- New York in the 1900s. A young girl fascinated by rare books defies all odds and becomes the director of one of the country's most prestigious private libraries. It belongs to the magnate J.P. Morgan, darling of the international aristocracy and one of the city's richest men. Flamboyant, brilliant, beautiful, Belle is among New York society's most sought after intellectuals. She also hides a secret. Although she looks white, she is African American, the daughter of a famous black activist who sees her desire to hide her origins as the consummate betrayal. Torn between history's ineluctable imperatives and the freedom to belong to the society of her choosing, Belle's drama, which plays out in a violently racist America, is one that resonates forcefully, and illuminatingly even today.
- Notes:
- "Copyright © Flammarion, Paris, 2021. First publication 2022 by Europa Editions. Translation copyright © 2022 by Europa Editions" -- verso.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 1609457587
- 9781609457587
- 9781787703827
- 1787703827
- OCLC:
- 1280105172
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