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The Living is Easy
The Living is Easy
Author: Dorothy West
One of only a handful of novels published by black women during the forties, the story of ambitious Cleo Judson is a long-time cult classic. The Living Is Easy is delightfully wry and ironic humor-even bitchiness-of the novel coexists with a challenging moral and social complexity. — "A powerful work."-Essence — "Dorothy West is a br...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780965392129
ISBN-10: 0965392120
Pages: 376
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Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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One of only a handful of novels published by black women during the 1940s, The Living is Easy tells the story of Cleo Judson, daughter of southern sharecroppers, who wants to become a member of Boston's early twentieth-century elite. Married to the "black banana king," she manipulates her three sisters into living with her, along with their children--but not their husbands--in an attempt to recreate her original family.


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