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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009
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12/30/2009
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English
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9780307575708
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Dorothy West. (2009). The Wedding: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

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With elegant, luminous prose, Dorothy West crowns her literary career by illustrating one family's struggle to break the shackles of race and class.

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