Sarah Phillips
By Andrea Lee
1984
First Published
3.66
Average Rating
128
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This novel, in the words of its title character, is set in "the hermetic world of the old-fashioned black bourgeoisie—a group largely unknown to other Americans, which has carried on with cautious pomp for years in eastern cities and suburbs, using its considerable funds to attempt poignant imitations of high society, acting with genuine gallantry in the struggle for civil rights, and finally producing a generation of children educated in newly integrated schools and impatient to escape the outworn rituals of their parents."
Avg Rating
3.66
Number of Ratings
254
5 STARS
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Author
Andrea Lee
Author · 7 books
Andrea Lee received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Harvard University. Lee made her debut in 1981 with a journalistic reflection on life in the Soviet Union, Russian Journal. The book came after a 1978 exchange visit to Moscow State University with her husband when she was 25. She is a former staff writer for The New Yorker, and her fiction and nonfiction writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine and The New York Times Book Review. She lives with her husband and two children in Turin, Italy (2006).
