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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

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