Cotillion Or, One Good Bull Is Half the Herd

Name: Cotillion Or, One Good Bull Is Half the Herd
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ISBN: 9781566891196

ISBN-10: 1566891191

ISBN-13: 9781566891196

Edition: 2002 (Reprint)

Authors: John Oliver Killens, Alexs D. Pate

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Beautiful, high-stepping Yoruba of Harlem is invited to the annual cotillion thrown by African American high society of Queens. Caught between the indifference of her father, the excitement of her social-climbing mother, and her prodigal boyfriend's militancy, Yoruba persuades her sister debutantes to challenge the aging doyennes in one of the most sidesplitting scenes in American literature. Nominated for a Pulitzer in 1972, Killens's uproarious satire captures the conflicts within black society in the 1960s. The Cotillion is the fourth title in Coffee House Press's acclaimed Black Arts Movement series. John Oliver Killens was born in Macon, Georgia in 1916. Co-founder of the Harlem…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Publication date: 2/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 220
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.50" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English

Alexs D. Pate's debut novel Losing Absalom received a Minnesota Book Award and was named Best First Novel by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Additional novels include the New York Times best-seller Amistad, Finding Makeba, The Multicultiboho Sideshow, and West of Rehoboth. Pate, born in Philadelphia, now teaches at the University of Minnesota.