The Gold Piano
Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9781680030082
- ISBN-10: 1680030086
- Publisher: Trp: The University Press of Shsu
- Publish Date: January 2015
- Dimensions: 8.54 x 5.49 x 0.92 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.89 pounds
- Page Count: 312
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