After the garden; a novel by Austin, Doris Jean - 1987

Dutton Books, 1987. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Penguin Publishing Group. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Dutton Adult, 1987-07-24. Hardcover. Good.

New York. 1987. July 1987. New American Library. 1st Printing. A Few Small Marks On Side Edge,Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket. 0453005381. 324 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by Jacqueline Schuman. keywords: Literature Black America Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This brilliantly imagined, achingly alive novel about the pain and joy of a black woman's life captures the textures and tensions, love and rage, of the black experience in America. The urban North is the setting of AFTER THE GARDEN: jersey City, New Jersey, where the beautiful but inwardly divided heroine, Elzina Tompkins, learns the lessons of life and love in 1940s and ‘50s. Elzina's search for happiness and fulfillment is a journey on a tightrope stretched to the breaking point between two opposing poles. One is that of the woman who has raised her, her grandmother Rosalie, strong, proud, fiercely righteous, for whom any weakness is an unpardonable sin. The other is that of the exquisitely graceful, handsome, and… Read More

New York: New American Library. 1987. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0453005381 . Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. .

New York: NAL.. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1987. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0453005381 . First edition. Near fine in fine dust jacket. (2 tiny specks of foxing at top edge. Light trace of foxing on front flap & paste-downs. ) Well received FIRST novel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 324 pages .

Dutton Adult, 1987-07-24. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!