Author: DEMIJOHN, THOM (A JOINT PSEUDONYM USED BY AUTHORS THOMAS M. DISCH AND JOHN SLADEK )
Title: Black Alice
Description: Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1968. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has one small nick to the rear foredge and some beginning rubbing to the spine ends and corners. "During the 1960s, in Virginia, while the blacks fight for their civil rights, a young white girl is kidnapped in Baltimore. Little Alice Raleigh, eleven years and blonde like corn, and heiress of an immense fortune, is held for a ransom of a million dollars. Her kidnappers, trying to make her invisible to the police officers and the federal agents searching for her, manage to brown her skin and her hair. They sequester her under an assumed name in a house held by an old black woman, near Norfolk, which turns out to be a house of prostitution. Slowly, Alice adapts herself to this surprising life amidst the black culture of the time period, completely new for her; at no point in the book is the young Alice made to participate in prostitution, and in fact Alice only has a vague idea of what goes on in behind closed doors in the house. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

Keywords: Modern Fiction Thom Demijohn Thomas Disch John Sladek 1960's Civil Rights Era Crime Kidnapping


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