{"product_id":"mambas-daughters-dubose-heyward-9781570030420","title":"Mamba's Daughters: A Novel of Charleston","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePorgy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e portrays Charleston's comic social climbers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Mamba appears on the Wentworth doorstep, this shrewd woman takes the first step in surmounting a social barrier as thorny as any in early twentieth-century Charleston. For the sake of her family, Mamba navigates a comic, calculated path to the privelged class of African-Americans employed by Charleston's aristocratic white families.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in the early twentieth-century, this classic novel transcends racial boundaries by intertwining the stories of three very different families in an amusing plot of deception, ambition, and social transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA new introduction by Don H. Doyle places \u003ci\u003eMamba's Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e in its historical context and suggests that in the novel, Heyward challenges the harsh, unjust aspects of Southern race relations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dubose Heyward\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1570030421\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781570030420\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/03\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.53h x 5.05w x 1.06d","brand":"Dubose Heyward","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939688415487,"sku":"9781570030420","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_172cb23b-e329-4818-9548-18ea58a29ade.jpg?v=1681442934","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mambas-daughters-dubose-heyward-9781570030420","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}