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A best-seller on Essence magazine's "Blackboard" list follows the unlikely romance between two African Americans from different worlds, a playboy music critic from Brooklyn and a classy career woman from Connecticut. Reprint.
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"Timely and powerful."
--SPIKE LEE
"Fiercely lyrical . . . The Big Chill--buppie style!"
--ANITA BAKER
"An insightful glimpse into a world where race is the theme and class is the tricky variation. . . . Nelson George . . . writes with a vitality and an emotional honesty that are appealing."
--The Boston Globe
"Urban Romance is a sojourn with deeply imagined characters whose dreams live in our hearts."
--ANGELA BASSETT
"From the Paperback edition."
"Timely and powerful."
--SPIKE LEE
"Fiercely lyrical . . . The Big Chill--buppie style!"
--ANITA BAKER
"An insightful glimpse into a world where race is the theme and class is the tricky variation. . . . Nelson George . . . writes with a vitality and an emotional honesty that are appealing."
--The Boston Globe
"Urban Romance is a sojourn with deeply imagined characters whose dreams live in our hearts."
--ANGELA BASSETT
"Timely and powerful."
--SPIKE LEE
"Fiercely lyrical . . . The Big Chill--buppie style!"
--ANITA BAKER
"An insightful glimpse into a world where race is the theme and class is the tricky variation. . . . Nelson George . . . writes with a vitality and an emotional honesty that are appealing."
--The Boston Globe
"Urban Romance is a sojourn with deeply imagined characters whose dreams live in our hearts."
--ANGELA BASSETT
"Timely and powerful."
--SPIKE LEE "Fiercely lyrical . . . The Big Chill--buppie style!"
--ANITA BAKER "An insightful glimpse into a world where race is the theme and class is the tricky variation. . . . Nelson George . . . writes with a vitality and an emotional honesty that are appealing."
--The Boston Globe "Urban Romance is a sojourn with deeply imagined characters whose dreams live in our hearts."
--ANGELA BASSETT
About the Author:
--SPIKE LEE
"Fiercely lyrical . . . The Big Chill--buppie style!"
--ANITA BAKER
"An insightful glimpse into a world where race is the theme and class is the tricky variation. . . . Nelson George . . . writes with a vitality and an emotional honesty that are appealing."
--The Boston Globe
"Urban Romance is a sojourn with deeply imagined characters whose dreams live in our hearts."
--ANGELA BASSETT
"From the Paperback edition."
"Timely and powerful."
--SPIKE LEE
"Fiercely lyrical . . . The Big Chill--buppie style!"
--ANITA BAKER
"An insightful glimpse into a world where race is the theme and class is the tricky variation. . . . Nelson George . . . writes with a vitality and an emotional honesty that are appealing."
--The Boston Globe
"Urban Romance is a sojourn with deeply imagined characters whose dreams live in our hearts."
--ANGELA BASSETT
"Timely and powerful."
--SPIKE LEE
"Fiercely lyrical . . . The Big Chill--buppie style!"
--ANITA BAKER
"An insightful glimpse into a world where race is the theme and class is the tricky variation. . . . Nelson George . . . writes with a vitality and an emotional honesty that are appealing."
--The Boston Globe
"Urban Romance is a sojourn with deeply imagined characters whose dreams live in our hearts."
--ANGELA BASSETT
"Timely and powerful."
--SPIKE LEE "Fiercely lyrical . . . The Big Chill--buppie style!"
--ANITA BAKER "An insightful glimpse into a world where race is the theme and class is the tricky variation. . . . Nelson George . . . writes with a vitality and an emotional honesty that are appealing."
--The Boston Globe "Urban Romance is a sojourn with deeply imagined characters whose dreams live in our hearts."
--ANGELA BASSETT
Nelson George is the author of eight books, including Elevating the Game, The Death of Rhythm and Blues, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, Where Did Our Love Go?, Seduced, and most recently, the highly praised Buppies, B-Boys, Baps & Bohos. A graduate of St. John's University, he was Billboard's black music editor for seven years before becoming a regular columnist for The Village Voice in 1989. He is a coauthor of the screenplays for the films Strictly Business and CB4 and a Grammy Award winner for James Brown's album Startime. George was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York.
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- PublisherBallantine Books
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0345426851
- ISBN 13 9780345426857
- BindingPaperback
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