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Kelley, William Melvin, 1937-20172021
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Mitchell Pierce is a well-off New York ad executive whose marriage is falling apart. He no longer feels any passion for his pregnant wife, Tam, and even feels estranged from his toddler son, Jake. Mitchell is trapped in an unrewarding and loveless life, and though domestic violence isn't in his character, it is never very far away, either. Mitchell's life will irrevocably change one day, though, when a young man appears at his apartment door to pick up the family's black maid, Opal, for a date. Cooley it turns out is not a stranger to the household. The twins that Tam is carrying are a result of superfecundation - the fertilisation of two separate ova by two different males. So when one child is born black and the other white, Mitchell goes on a quest to find Cooley and make him take his baby.
Main title:
dem / William Melvin Kelley.
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Imprint:
London : riverrun, 2021.
Collation:
288 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Doubleday, 1967.
ISBN:
9781529412154 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
813.54
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1174020
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Stratford Library | Adult fiction | Available |