Black Alice by Thom Demijohn ➤ Doubleday 1968 Book Club Edition [09 S]

Black Alice by Thom Demijohn Doubleday 1968 Book Club Edition <09 S>

Title: Black Alice

Author: Thom Demijohn

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Doubleday 1968

Edition: Book Club Edition [09 S]

Size: 5.5 X 8.5 * 224 pages

Synopsis: This is a powerful suspense novel based on an ingenious plot to wrest a fortune from an eleven-year-old heiress. Blonde Alice is kidnapped in Baltimore; she reappears in Norfolk as the black-faced, kinky-haired niece of Negro Bessie McKay. Pushed across the color line, she becomes invisible to the white community and the people searching for her. On the surface this is a highly entertaining novel, written in a deceptively light-hearted manner. But beneath the humor lies an unforgettable reflection of man's capacity for corruption and his infinite ability for disguising it with self-righteousness. And beneath the violence and melodrama lies a deep respect for the resources of the human spirit as a remarkable little girl and an indomitable old colored woman come to grips with each other -- and with the harsh realities of their respective worlds.

Overall Condition: Good + It has very minimal wear to the cover and no holes or tears. The dust jacket is not included. The binding has minimal wear. The pages are undamaged with no creasing or tearing, no pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. There are no missing pages; see images.

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