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Set in Mobile, Alabama, Gulf Stream, the 1930 novel by Marie Stanley (Marie Layet Sheip), is an important part of Alabama's literary heritage. A stunning first person performance by a gifted woman novelist, it is the work of Alabama social history, of Alabama women's writing, of the development of realistic Alabama fiction, and most telling, a work about the complexities of race. It is at once the story of a ;white ; mixed-race woman in a ;black ; world and the story of a ;black ; mixed-race woman seeking forbidden love in a ;white ; world.Stanley, Marie is the author of 'Gulf Stream' with ISBN 9780817306953 and ISBN 0817306951.
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