The Richer, the Poorer: Stories, Sketches, and Reminiscences

The Richer, the Poorer: Stories, Sketches, and Reminiscences

On the heels of the bestseller success of her  novel <i>The Wedding</i>, Dorothy West,  the last surviving member of the Harlem  Renaissance, presents a collection of essays and stories that  explore both the realism of everyday life, and the  fantastical, extraordinary circumstances of one  woman's life in a mythic time. Traversing the  universal themes and conflicts between poverty and  prosperity, men and women, and young and old, and  compiling writing that spans almost seventy years,  <i>The Richer, The Poorer</i> not only  affords an unparalleled window into the  African-American middle class, but also delves into the  richness of experience of "one of the finest writers  produced in this country during the Roaring  Twenties"(<i>Book Page</i>).