Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral
by Jessi Redmon Fauset
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Author: Jessi Redmon FausetEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-12-15
ISBN: 0807009199
Number of pages: 408
Publisher: Beacon Press
Book Reviews of Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral
Book Review: A good work by Ms. Fauset
Summary: 5 Stars
I give PLUM BUN a positive review. I first noticed it at the bookstore where I work. The Harlem Renaissance is something great; I read all I can on it. This novel is quite representative of the era. About a month before seeing this book, I read THE POWER OF PRIDE, a coffee table book on the Harlem Renaissance which contained some wonderful photos. Having read ...PRIDE, I noticed that something about this particular edition of PLUM BUN really bothers me. The portrait drawing on the front of the book looks more like Nella Larsen than it does Jessie Fauset. Unless Ms.Marks and Ms.Edkins, the compilers of ...PRIDE, got their photos mixed up, the picture on the front of PLUM BUN is Nella Larsen--not Jessie Fauset.
Summary of Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral
Written in 1929 at the height of the Harlem Renaissance by one of the movement's most important and prolific authors, Plum Bun is the story of Angela Murray, a young black girl who discovers she can pass for white. After the death of her parents, Angela moves to New York to escape the racism she believes is her only obstacle to opportunity. What she soon discovers is that being a woman has its own burdens that don't fade with the color of one's skin, and that love and marriage might not offer her salvation.Historical Books
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