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Cane (Heritage Series) Unknown - 1996
by Toomer, Jean
About this book
Cane is considered the first novel of the Harlem Renaissance, and today is revered as a classic. This collection was originally published in 1923, sold 500 copies, and then disappeared until it was re-discovered in the 1960s (two years after the author's death). Considered ‘High Modernist’ the novel is composed of vignettes including narrative prose, poetry, and dialogue, moving in a circular fashion to combine life experiences of black in the rural south and urban north.
First line
Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon, O cant you see it, O cant you see it, Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon . . . When the sun goes down.
First Edition Identification
The First edition of Cane was published by Boni and Liveright in 1923, in a print run of just 500.
Details
- Title Cane (Heritage Series)
- Author Toomer, Jean
- Binding unknown
- Edition Reprint
- Publisher Candace Press, Grand Rapids, MI
- Date 1996
- ISBN 9781889073088