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Defending Alice : a novel of love and race in the roaring twenties  Cover Image Book Book

Defending Alice : a novel of love and race in the roaring twenties

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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  • ISBN: 9780063115460 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: print
    566 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First HarperVia edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2022.
Subject: Jones, Alice Beatrice Fiction
Rhinelander, Leonard Kip Fiction
Interracial marriage Fiction
Marriage Annulment Fiction
Scandals Fiction
Trials (Divorce) New York (State) Fiction
New York (N.Y.) History 1898-1951 Fiction
Genre: Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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Lakeshore Branch FIC Strat 31681010303618 FICTION Available -

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