The gold piano / Stephen March.
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TextPublisher: Huntsville, Texas : Texas Review Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: First editionDescription: 310 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781680030082 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Minorities -- Education (Higher) -- North Carolina -- Fiction | Interracial friendship -- FictionDDC classification: 813/.6 LOC classification: PS3613.A733 | G65 2014Summary: The Gold Piano tells the story of Emerson Wainwright, a young man whose idyllic life in a small North Carolina town is turned upside down after his father is caught on videotape in a homosexual act at the county hospital. To escape from his hometown and its painful memories, Emerson enrolls at an under-funded historically black college a hundred miles away, attending on a minority grant. As the only white student living on campus, he struggles with his loneliness and his role as an outsider. His relationship with his roommate, a black activist from Brooklyn, is challenged when Emerson begins to fall in love with Zena, a gifted black artist. The novel's final scenes bring a quiet but hopeful sense of resolution to Emerson's quest to define himself and find his place in the world.
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The Gold Piano tells the story of Emerson Wainwright, a young man whose idyllic life in a small North Carolina town is turned upside down after his father is caught on videotape in a homosexual act at the county hospital. To escape from his hometown and its painful memories, Emerson enrolls at an under-funded historically black college a hundred miles away, attending on a minority grant. As the only white student living on campus, he struggles with his loneliness and his role as an outsider. His relationship with his roommate, a black activist from Brooklyn, is challenged when Emerson begins to fall in love with Zena, a gifted black artist. The novel's final scenes bring a quiet but hopeful sense of resolution to Emerson's quest to define himself and find his place in the world.
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