From one of the most important American novelists of the twentieth centuryโa novel of sexual, racial, political, artistic passions, set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France.
โBrilliant and fiercely told.โโThe New York Times
One of The Atlanticโs Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, this book depicts men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime.
Nominated as one of Americaโs best-loved novels by PBSโs The Great American Read.