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03002aam a2200349 i 4500 001 960E1286B8CA11EDAC6855BD37ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230302011926 008 221017s2023 meu d 000 1 eng 010 $a 2022047036 020 $a 9798885786768 (large print : hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1348102460 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 10 $a PS3569.T691337 $b D44 2023 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 23/eng/20221017 100 1 $a Stratton, Richard $q (Richard H.), $e author. 245 10 $a Defending Alice : $b a novel of love and race in the roaring twenties / $c Richard Stratton. 250 $a Large print edition. 260 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2023. 263 $a 2302 300 $a 791 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm. 520 $a "Set in 1920s New York, an addictively readable, thoroughly entertaining historical novel involving sex and secrets, race and redemption, and power and privilege--based on a sensational real-life case that made international headlines--in which the marriage between a working-class black woman and the scion of one of America's most powerful white families ends in a scandalous annulment lawsuit. When Alice Jones, a blue-color woman with at least one Black parent marries Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander, the son of one of New York's most prominent society families, the scandal rocks high society--and eventually sets the city afire when Kip later sues for an annulment, accusing Alice of having hidden her "Negro blood" and intentionally deceiving him that she was white. While New York society in the Roaring Twenties witnessed more than a few scandals, the real-life Rhinelander case set tongues wagging and became perhaps the most examined interracial relationship in American history. In Defending Alice, Richard Stratton reimagines this remarkable story, from the couple's courtship through their controversial marriage to their shocking divorce trial and its aftermath. Chronicled by Alice's attorney, brilliant trial lawyer Lee Parsons Davis, and told in flashbacks and entries from Alice and Kip's fictional personal diaries, this epic page-turner vividly brings to life the New York of a century ago--a world seemingly far removed yet tragically familiar to our own. Stratton brilliantly evokes this dazzling era in all its glamour and excess, and in retelling the Rhinelander story, explores issues of sex, race, class, prejudice, and justice that are as relevant today as they were a century ago when this headline-making trial took place" -- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Jones, Alice Beatrice $v Fiction. 600 10 $a Rhinelander, Leonard Kip $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Large type books. 655 7 $a Biographical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 945 $a lpt 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230302012604.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=960E1286B8CA11EDAC6855BD37ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search