The richer, the poorer :
West, Dorothy, 1907-1998
The richer, the poorer : stories, sketches, and reminiscences / Dorothy West - First edition - xv, 254 pages ; 25 cm
Stories : The typewriter -- The five-dollar bill -- Jack in the pot -- Mammy -- The richer, the poorer -- Funeral -- The penny -- The bird like no other -- The happiest year, the saddest year -- The envelope -- Fluff and Mr. Ripley -- Odyssey of an egg -- About a woman named Nancy -- The roomer -- The maple tree -- An unimportant man -- To market, to market -- Sketches and reminiscences : Rachel -- Fond memories of a black childhood -- The gift -- The purse -- The sun parlor -- Remembrance -- An adventure in Moscow -- The cart -- Elephant's dance -- A day lost is a day gone forever -- The legend of Oak Bluffs -- Love -- The flight
Seventeen stories of fiction and non-fiction. The story, Mammy, is on color discrimination among blacks, Jack in the Pot is about a woman on welfare whose lottery win only brings problems, and in The Penny, a boy rats on his parents to make money
0385471459 9780385471459
West, Dorothy, 1907-1998
African Americans--Fiction
Authors, American--20th century--Biography
African American authors--Biography
Biography.
Fiction.
PS3545.E82794 / R53 1995
305.896073 / W522r
The richer, the poorer : stories, sketches, and reminiscences / Dorothy West - First edition - xv, 254 pages ; 25 cm
Stories : The typewriter -- The five-dollar bill -- Jack in the pot -- Mammy -- The richer, the poorer -- Funeral -- The penny -- The bird like no other -- The happiest year, the saddest year -- The envelope -- Fluff and Mr. Ripley -- Odyssey of an egg -- About a woman named Nancy -- The roomer -- The maple tree -- An unimportant man -- To market, to market -- Sketches and reminiscences : Rachel -- Fond memories of a black childhood -- The gift -- The purse -- The sun parlor -- Remembrance -- An adventure in Moscow -- The cart -- Elephant's dance -- A day lost is a day gone forever -- The legend of Oak Bluffs -- Love -- The flight
Seventeen stories of fiction and non-fiction. The story, Mammy, is on color discrimination among blacks, Jack in the Pot is about a woman on welfare whose lottery win only brings problems, and in The Penny, a boy rats on his parents to make money
0385471459 9780385471459
West, Dorothy, 1907-1998
African Americans--Fiction
Authors, American--20th century--Biography
African American authors--Biography
Biography.
Fiction.
PS3545.E82794 / R53 1995
305.896073 / W522r