false<![CDATA[Imitation of Life]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177277150m/691242.jpg6912424A bestseller in 1933, and subsequently adapted into two beloved and controversial films, <I>Imitation of Life</I> has played a vital role in ongoing conversations about race, femininity, and the American Dream. Bea Pullman, a white single mother, and her African American maid, Delilah Johnston, also a single mother, rear their daughters together and become business partners. Combining Bea’s business savvy with Delilah’s irresistible southern recipes, they build an Aunt Jemima-like waffle business and an international restaurant empire. Yet their public success brings them little happiness. Bea is torn between her responsibilities as a businesswoman and those of a mother; Delilah is devastated when her light-skinned daughter, Peola, moves away to pass as white. <I>Imitation of Life</I> struck a chord in the 1930s, and it continues to resonate powerfully today.<BR><BR>The author of numerous bestselling novels, a masterful short story writer, and an outspoken social activist, Fannie Hurst was a major celebrity in the first half of the twentieth century. Daniel Itzkovitz’s introduction situates <I>Imitation of Life</I> in its literary, biographical, and cultural contexts, addressing such topics as the debates over the novel and films, the role of Hurst’s one-time secretary and great friend Zora Neale Hurston in the novel’s development, and the response to the novel by Hurst’s friend Langston Hughes, whose one-act satire, “Limitations of Life” (which reverses the races of Bea and Delilah), played to a raucous Harlem crowd in the late 1930s. This edition brings a classic of popular American literature back into print.6775871933Imitation of Lifetotal:31|5:8|4:12|3:8|2:2|1:1|3111762640falsefalseThu Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008Tue Sep 02 12:48:30 -0700 2008Thu Nov 06 18:07:37 -0800 2008
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