Defending Alice: A Novel of Love and Race in the Roaring Twenties

Hardcover

22 Nov, 2022

By Richard Stratton (Author)

"Gripping courtroom drama and social commentary . . . the story flows well . . . [the author is] masterful in building suspense."--Kirkus ReviewsSet in 192...

International Edition

Ships within 15-17 Business Days

New

~~₹ 2465~~
₹ 2147

BRAND NEW - Item in perfectly NEW condition.

Used

GOOD CONDITION - Used book in GOOD - READABLE condition. The books may contain markings, highlightings and wear due to previous usage. The book is in overall good condition. Great Deal !!!

Cancellation Policy

Shipping Policy

Return Policy

ISBN-10:

0063115468

ISBN-13:

9780063115460

Publisher

Harpervia

No.of Pages

576

Dimensions

9.1 X 6.1 X 1.6 inches

Description

"Gripping courtroom drama and social commentary . . . the story flows well . . . [the author is] masterful in building suspense."--Kirkus Reviews

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.

Product Details

ISBN-10

: 0063115468

ISBN-13

: 9780063115460

Publisher

: Harpervia

Publication date

: 22 Nov, 2022

About the Author

Richard Stratton -

Richard Stratton is an award