The Living is Easy

Dorothy West

Original title: The Living Is Easy

earliest edition we have, 1969 The Feminist Press, 1982

"The Living Is Easy, Dorothy West's first novel and one of only a handful of novels published by women during the Harlem Renaissance, tells the story of Cleo Judson, daughter of Southern sharecroppers, who is determined to integrate into Boston's black elite. Married to the "Black Banana King" Bart Judson, Cleo maneuvers her three sisters and their children-but not their husbands-into living with her, attempting to r...

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The Living is Easy paperback · 2020 · The Feminist Press at CUNY · 368 pages · 9781936932979
Living Is Easy edition · 2013 · Feminist Press at The City University of New York · 9781306436151
Living Is Easy edition · 1996 · Feminist Press at The City University of New York · 9781558617322
The Living Is Easy paperback · 1996 · The Feminist Press · 364 pages · 9781558611474
The Living is easy edition · 1982 · The Feminist Press
The Living Is Easy hardcover · 1969 · Ayer Co Pub · 9780405019425

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