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Author West, Dorothy, 1907-1998.

Title The richer, the poorer : stories, sketches, and reminiscences / Dorothy West.

Publication Info. New York : Anchor Books, [1995]
©1995

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary 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.
Contents 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.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Provenance Gift of Paul and Mary Haas.
Subject African Americans -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Social life and customs.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Subject Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors, American.
Chronological Term 20th century
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject African American authors -- Biography.
African American authors -- Biography.
West, Dorothy, 1907-1998.
West, Dorothy, 1907-1998.
African American authors.
African Americans.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Fiction.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: West, Dorothy, 1907-1998. Richer, the poorer. New York : Anchor Books, ©1995 (DLC) 94044013 (OCoLC)35122431
ISBN 9780307754912 (electronic book)
030775491X (electronic book)
0385471467
9780385471466
Music No. EB00148519 Recorded Books