e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Library Journal Review
More Content
More by this author
Stratton, Richard (Richard H.)
Subjects
Jones, Alice Beatrice -- Fiction.
Interracial marriage -- Fiction.
Scandals -- Fiction.
Marriage -- Annulment -- Fiction.
Nineteen twenties -- Fiction.
Trials (Divorce) -- New York (State) -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Fiction.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Stratton, Richard (Richard H.)
by title:
Defending Alice : a ...
by call number:
FICTION STR
Search the Web
Stratton, Richard (Richard H.)
Jones, Alice Beatrice -- Fiction.
Interracial marriage -- Fiction.
Scandals -- Fiction.
Marriage -- Annulment -- Fiction.
Nineteen twenties -- Fiction.
Trials (Divorce) -- New York (State) -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Fiction.
MARC Display
Defending
Alice
: a
novel
of
love
and
race
in the
roaring
twenties
/ Richard Stratton.
by
Stratton, Richard (Richard H.)
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2022.
Call #:
FICTION STR
Subjects
Jones,
Alice
Beatrice -- Fiction.
Interracial marriage -- Fiction.
Scandals -- Fiction.
Marriage -- Annulment -- Fiction.
Nineteen
twenties
-- Fiction.
Trials (Divorce) -- New York (State) -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780063115460 (hc)
Edition:
1st HarperVia ed.
Description:
566 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"Set in 1920s New York, an addictively readable, thoroughly entertaining historical
novel
involving sex and secrets,
race
and redemption, and power and privilege -- based on a sensational real-life case that made international headlines -- in which the marriage between a working-class black woman and the scion of one of America's most powerful white families ends in a scandalous annulment lawsuit. When
Alice
Jones, a blue-color woman with at least one Black parent marries Leonard 'Kip' Rhinelander, the son of one of New York's most prominent society families, the scandal rocks high society -- and eventually sets the city afire when Kip later sues for an annulment, accusing
Alice
of having hidden her 'Negro blood' and intentionally deceiving him that she was white. While New York society in the
Roaring
Twenties
witnessed more than a few scandals, the real-life Rhinelander case set tongues wagging and became perhaps the most examined interracial relationship in American history. In
Defending
Alice
, Richard Stratton reimagines this remarkable story, from the couple's courtship through their controversial marriage to their shocking divorce trial and its aftermath. Chronicled by
Alice
's attorney, brilliant trial lawyer Lee Parsons Davis, and told in flashbacks and entries from
Alice
and Kip's fictional personal diaries, this epic page-turner vividly brings to life the New York of a century ago--a world seemingly far removed yet tragically familiar to our own. Stratton brilliantly evokes this dazzling era in all its glamour and excess, and in retelling the Rhinelander story, explores issues of sex,
race
, class, prejudice, and justice that are as relevant today as they were a century ago when this headline-making trial took place."--Publisher.
Genre:
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Legal stories.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Bedford Public Library
Adult Fiction
FICTION STR
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Captain William Spry Public Library
Adult Fiction
FICTION STR
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
J. D. Shatford Memorial Public Library
Adult Fiction
FICTION STR
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Tantallon Public Library
Adult Fiction
FICTION STR
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.