Thank you for the information, astrangerhere. A pleasant surprise to see that the Kindle version of the Penguin edition has dropped in price from $9.99 to $7.99 too.
I was able to find an article in the NY Times that specifically addresses the reissue of two books this month with a similar theme.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/b...la-larsen.html
Quote:
Two influential, if woefully under-read, American classics — George S. Schuyler’s “Black No More” (1931) and Nella Larsen’s “Passing” (1929) — have been reissued in handsome new editions in time for Black History Month. This is excellent news for readers, but I imagine the authors, both famously ambivalent about causes of any kind, would have greeted the news with some exasperation.
They were contemporaries with little in common. Schuyler was prolific, pugnacious and very much in the public eye; Larsen was recessive, and vanished from literary life after publishing two novels and a few stories. Schuyler’s obituary appeared in the major newspapers; Larsen was buried in an unmarked grave in Brooklyn. But they were both deeply wary of allegiances, racial or otherwise.
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