Details

Subjects:

African American novelists -- Fiction.
African American women novelists -- Fiction.
Authorship -- Sex differences -- Fiction.
Fiction -- Authorship -- Fiction.
Writer's block -- Fiction.
Social classes -- Fiction.
Storytelling -- Fiction.
Sex role -- Fiction.
African American novelists.
African American women novelists.
Authorship -- Sex differences.
Fiction -- Authorship.
Sex role.
Social classes.
Storytelling.
Writer's block.

Local subjects:

African American novelists -- Fiction. (search)
African American women novelists -- Fiction. (search)
Authorship -- Sex differences -- Fiction. (search)
Fiction -- Authorship -- Fiction. (search)
Writer's block -- Fiction. (search)
Social classes -- Fiction. (search)
Storytelling -- Fiction. (search)
Sex role -- Fiction. (search)

Form/Genre:

Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Black humor (Literature)
Psychological fiction.

Place of Publication:

United States New York (State) New York (City)

Summary:

This humorous novel tells the story of Dewayne Wellington, a failing black experimental novelist, and Isshee Ayam, a radical feminist author, collaborating on Dewayne's latest sexist comedy and talking about sex.

Notes:

"A Vintage original, July 1988"--Title page verso.
Text photos copyright © by Lorna Simpson. Author photo copyright © 1988 by Kristine Larsen.
Designed by Ann Gold.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie. Cover illustration by Rick Lovell.

Local notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
Banks Collection copy has book review cut from newspaper laid in.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Penn Chronology:

1988

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Other format:

Online version: Ellis, Trey. Platitudes.

ISBN:

0394754395 (paper) :
9780394754390

OCLC:

17954289