{"product_id":"the-house-behind-the-cedars-modern-library-classics","title":"The House Behind the Cedars (Modern Library Classics)","description":"Charles Chesnutt’s classic novel, hailed by Werner Sollors as “a pioneering work of racial passing.”\n\nEdited and featuring an introduction and notes from Judith Jackson Fossett.\n\nA riveting portrait of the shifting and intractable nature of race in American life, The House Behind the Cedars follows John and Rena Walden, mixed-race siblings who pass for white in the postbellum American South. The siblings travel carefully between Black and white worlds, but their precarious routine is threatened when Rena falls in love with a white man and hides her true heritage to start a life with him.\n\nThis edition revitalizes a much-neglected masterpiece by one of our most important African American writers. As Werner Sollors writes, “William Dean Howells did not overstate his case when he compared Chesnutt’s works with those by Turgenev, Maupassant, and James.”\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0812966163\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0812966163.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Chesnutt, Charles|Fossett, Judith Jackson\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43334581747773,"sku":"BVV.0812966163.A","price":7.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0812966163-0.jpg?v=1783696424","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/the-house-behind-the-cedars-modern-library-classics","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}