Defending Alice : a novel of love and race in the roaring twenties /
In a novel based on a real-life case, 1920s New York society is set ablaze when Alice Jones, a working-class woman with at least one black parent, marries Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander, the son of a wealthy, prominent family, who makes international headlines after he sues for annulment, accus...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2022].
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| Summary: | In a novel based on a real-life case, 1920s New York society is set ablaze when Alice Jones, a working-class woman with at least one black parent, marries Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander, the son of a wealthy, prominent family, who makes international headlines after he sues for annulment, accusing her of hiding her "Negro blood." |
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| Physical Description: | 566 pages ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780063115460 0063115468 |