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Love Story Black

Love Story Black

Demby, William
Reed, Ishmael

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN13: 9798217007356
Publisher: Vintage
Published: May 12 2026
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.13 Depth: 7.96
Language: English
This thoroughly engaging novel by the author of Beetlecreek ([a] quiet masterpiece --Kirkus Reviews) follows a Black journalist in the 1970s whose bourgeois life is turned upside down by the subject of his writing assignment.

One of the great novelists of the last 100 years. --Ishmael Reed, author of Mumbo Jumbo

In the midst of the tumultuous 1970s, Edwards, a freelance writer and Black Studies professor at a small college in New York City, is assigned a story for New Black Woman magazine: a profile of Mona Pariss, an aging former singer whose popularity once rivaled Josephine Baker's. With his creditors at the door, Professor Edwards beats a path to the crumbling Harlem apartment house where Mona Pariss, once the toast of Europe for her singing, now lives in squalid obscurity. As his interviews progress, Edwards is gradually drawn into Mona's strange world. At the same time, he finds himself entering into an affair with Hortense, a beautiful young assistant at New Black Woman. From revolutionary downtown poetry readings to a hospital bed on the Continent and back, becoming entangled in the lives of both women might turn Edwards's bourgeois life upside down for good. A smart satire with a biting wit, Love Story Black is an unmissable novel by one of the masters of midcentury American fiction.

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