{"product_id":"city-of-light-cyrus-colter-9780810150805","title":"City of Light","description":"Paul Kessey, age twenty-nine, is caught between two worlds. Although his is a privileged world of successful blacks in Chicago, and he is a graduate of Princeton, handsome and well-connected, Kessey is uncertain how to identify himself in relation to the African diaspora, partly because of his light skin. Throughout a Paris sojourn, he is both attracted and repelled by different ideas, attitudes, and concepts regarding the place of blacks in a white society; he goes back and forth among the persons and the ideas they represent, and thus among contradictory possibilities of life as a black man. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy intertwining in an intricate web racial, class, and political issues with the intense struggles of one man's heart, Colter presents a vivid portrait of the personal effects of prejudice and its hypocrisies. \u003ci\u003eCity of Light \u003c\/i\u003eremains a daring push against the grain of American literary fashion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cyrus Colter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810150808\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810150805\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Triquarterly Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 423\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.55w x 0.94d","brand":"Cyrus Colter","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45481731752191,"sku":"9780810150805","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0894b159-d8a0-4922-a2af-7ef9feb36889.jpg?v=1715987509","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/city-of-light-cyrus-colter-9780810150805","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}