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Book Title
Dem
Publication Name
dem
Title
dem
Author
William Melvin Kelley
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
1984899333
EAN
9781984899330
ISBN
9781984899330
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Genre
Fiction
Release Date
30/06/2020
Release Year
2020
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.6in
Item Length
8in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
7.6 Oz
Publication Year
2020
Topic
African American / General, Satire, Literary
Number of Pages
208 Pages

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A searing, provocative satire by one of the most important African-American novelists of the twentieth century that lays bare the abiding racism and the legacy of slavery on the psyche of white America. Mitchell Pierce is a well-off New York ad executive whose marriage is falling apart. He no longer feels any passion for his pregnant wife, Tam, and even feels estranged from his toddler son, Jake. Mitchell is trapped in an unrewarding and loveless life, and though domestic violence isn't in his character, it is never very far away, either. Mitchell's life will irrevocably change one day, though, when a young man appears at his apartment door to pick up the family's black maid, Opal, for a date. Cooley it turns out is not a stranger to the household. The twins that Tam is carrying are a result of superfecundation--the fertilization of two separate ova by two different males. So when one child is born black and the other white, Mitchell goes on a quest to find Cooley and make him take his baby. In the tradition of Brer Rabbit trickster tales, dem enacts a modern-day fable of turning the tables on the white oppressor and inverting the history of miscegenation and subjugation of African Americans.

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1984899333
ISBN-13
9781984899330
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23038413099

Product Key Features

Book Title
Dem
Author
William Melvin Kelley
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
African American / General, Satire, Literary
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
208 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
7.6 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ps3561.E392d4 2020
Reviews
"One of the outstanding comic novels of the [sixties]." -- The Boston Globe "This satire peels back some uncomfortable layers of how the races see each other and is just as relevant today as it was in 1967, when it was published." -- The New York Times Sunday Book Review "In dem the search for absolutes and the revelation of chaos beneath apparent order give this novel a mythopoetic resonance even as the concrete devices of fabulation and the dialectics of bitter, blue-black satire undermine the mythologies upon which the disintegrating lives of the white central characters depend." --Johns S. Wright
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2022-513270
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Dewey Edition
23

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