Mr. George's Joint

(no dust jacket) [a nice-looking copy, minor wear to extremities, a bit of soiling to bottom of text block]. Novel set in the African-American community of Texas City, Texas, centering around an establishment that's a combination beer joint, restaurant, dance hall and gambling den. Despite (or maybe because of) having been written by a white lady, it was lauded by The New York Times as "a richly authentic and very readable slice of life." (Although the reviewer, Herschel Brickell -- a native of Yazoo City, Mississippi -- also tipped his hand a bit by praising the author for not being "afflicted with 'social consciousness'," which therefore prevented her book from becoming "a vehicle for propaganda, and its people representatives of the oppressed proletariat, wretched victims of race prejudice and economic injustice." Gosh, no, we wouldn't want any of that, now, would we) Let's the give author her due, though: her book did prevail over 288 other manuscripts submitted in the first-ever contest for something called the Thomas Jefferson Southern Award.

Product Info

Publisher: E.P. Dutton & Co. (A Virginia Quarterly Review Book)

Year: 1941

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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