9781454951544

Contending Forces

Format: Paperback

ISBN13: 9781454951544

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Overview

Sappho Clark--beautiful, mysterious, Southern--arrives in Boston to earn her living as a stenographer. She lodges with the Smith family and immediately becomes a source of fascination to the them: Ma Smith is impressed by Sappho's financial independence; Dora Smith admires Sappho's quiet self-possession; and Will Smith, Dora's brother, falls madly in love with Sappho. But as Sappho enters the Smiths' community, it becomes clear that her beauty is a lure to bad actors, including someone who entertains dark suspicions about her past. . .

 

A murder mystery, the story of a friendship, and a romance set in Boston's thriving, politically active middle-class Black community, Contending Forces is an unjustly forgotten American classic.

 

 

ISBN-13

9781454951544

ISBN-10

1454951540

Weight

0.75 Pounds

Dimensions

5.30 x 0.80 x 8.20 In

List Price

$15.99

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

272 pages

Publisher

Union Square & Co.

Published On

2023-10-03



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