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An edition of The Narrows (1953)

The Narrows

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"It's Saturday, past midnight, and thick fog rolls in from the river like smoke. Link Williams is standing on the dock when he hears quick footsteps approaching, and the gasp of a woman too terrified to scream. After chasing off her attacker, he takes the woman to a nearby bar to calm her nerves, and as they enter, it's as if the oxygen has left the room: they, and the other patrons, see in the dim light that he's Black and she's white. Link is a brilliant Dartmouth graduate, former athlete and soldier who, because of the lack of opportunities available to him, tends bar; Camilo is a wealthy married woman dissatisfied with and bored of her life of privilege. Thrown together by a chance encounter, both Link and Camilo secretly cross the town's racial divide, defying the social prejudices of their times."--Publisher marketing.

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Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Pages
428

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Subjects

Adultery African American men Fiction Married women Miscegenation Race relations White Women Fiction, general African Americans African americans, fiction Connecticut, fiction Fiction, women Interracial dating Noirs américains Romans, nouvelles Relations raciales Amours interraciaux

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Connecticut
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The Narrows: A Novel
Jul 15, 2017, Northwestern University Press
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Narrows
2008, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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The Narrows
1999, Houghton Mifflin
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The Narrows
1988, Beacon Press
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The Narrows
June 1973, Chatham Bookseller
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The Narrows.
1973, The Chatham Bookseller
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The Narrows
May 30, 1961, Ace Books
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Cover of: The Narrows.
The Narrows.
1953, Houghton Mifflin
in English
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The narrows.
1953, Houghton Mifflin
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Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. xix-xx.
Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1953.

Published in
Boston
Series
Black women writers series
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3531.E933 N3 1988, PS3531.E933N3 1988

The Physical Object

Pagination
xx, 428 p. ;
Number of pages
428

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL2407524M
ISBN 10
0807083038
LCCN
87042853
OCLC/WorldCat
17106585
LibraryThing
2490784
Goodreads
1321845

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL10343133W

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