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Product Identifiers
PublisherSimon & Schuster Children's Publishing
ISBN-10141659356X
ISBN-139781416593560
eBay Product ID (ePID)20038747424
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Book TitleHarlem Redux : a Novel
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2008
TopicAfrican American / General, General, Mystery & Detective / General, Historical
GenreFiction
AuthorPersia Walker
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight16.4 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
ReviewsApril Christoffersonauthor ofThe ProtocolandClinical TrialPersia Walker'sHarlem Reduxis a rich, thoroughly enjoyable tale of greed and deceit, passion and betrayal. With her elegant prose, Walker does an amazing job of recreating Harlem during the Renaissance of the 1920s. I loved her characters, their complexity and depth, the struggles they faced and their all too human responses. Walker kept me guessing right to the very end.Harlem Reduxis a great read and Walker an author to look for in the future., Tananarive Dueauthor ofThe Living BloodandThe Black RoseHarlem Reduxis a notable debut. This intriguing page-turner, convincingly set in the heady era of 1920s Harlem, is atmospheric and smart and will keep readers guessing until the very end.
SynopsisFour years after dropping out of Harlem society, David McKay, a handsome young lawyer from a prominent Strivers' Row family, returns home, devastated by the news of his sister Lilian's suicide. What caused his once stable, gentle sister to take her own life? Why did she marry Jameson Sweet, giving a man she barely knew a claim to the family home? What caused her flamboyant twin, Gem, to return to Harlem from Paris, forge new bonds, and suddenly depart again? Most important, why did Lilian feel compelled to keep David in the dark about it all? Burdened by a secret of his own, David dares to stay in Harlem just long enough to stave off the threat to his family home and answer questions about Lilian's death. Entering her world, he rediscovers what he left behind -- a place of suffocating class strictures, seductive patrons, and aristocratic civil rights leaders. His inquiry takes him from the wealthy salons of Renaissance Harlem to the crowded tenements of its poor. He uncovers old loves and festering hatreds. But the deeper he probes, the closer he comes to unleashing forces that threaten to reveal his own crippling secret -- a secret that could destroy him or redeem him. This gripping novel, at once taut and lyrical, evokes the mystique of Harlem's most fascinating era. Absorbing and powerful, Harlem Redux combines incisive comment on race and class with a tragic tale of unrequited love.
