IMITATION OF LIFE

by Fannie Hurst ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 1, 1933

Ran under the title SUGAR HOUSE as a serial in Pictorial Review, and secured a certain amount of popular approval from the ""circulating-library-at-the-corner-drug-store"" audience. A disappointing book from the author of LUMMOX, or even of FIVE AND TEN. A machine-made success story, with the heroine patterned, presumably, on Alice Foote MacDougall. Careless writing, cheap effects, with one bit of sensationalism in the episode of the almost white daughter of the old colored cook, and of the girl's determination to marry a white man and ""pass"".

Pub Date: Feb. 1, 1933

ISBN: 0822333244

Page Count: -

Publisher: Harper

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1933

Categories: NONFICTION