Why we never danced the Charleston

Resource Information

The work Why we never danced the Charleston represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Why we never danced the Charleston

Statement of responsibility

Harlan Greene

Creator

• Greene, Harlan

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Subject

• Children of immigrants -- Fiction
• Children of the rich -- Fiction
• Electronic books
• Gay men -- Fiction
• Charleston (S.C.) -- Fiction
• Sexual orientation -- Fiction
• Social classes -- Fiction
• Repression (Psychology) -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"Old stories never end; they just come down the generations to resolve themselves among the living." The scene is Charleston, South Carolina; the time, the 1920s, when old ladies dream of the past and a strange new dance, "the Charleston," is seducing the youth of the city. Years later, whispers emerge of something baffling and tragic that happened back then. As an old man confronts those demanding the truth, we catch brilliant flashes of the confrontation between the dark, doomed Hirsch Hess, son of immigrants, and the fantastically ethereal Ned Grimke, a scion of the city. Told in intoxicatingly beautiful prose, this story of passion, beauty and the deadly effects of sexual repression takes us to a specific time and place, yet simultaneously blossoms as a universal tale of the human heart in conflict with its era. This cult classic, set in the most intriguing period of one of America's most beautiful cities, is now restored to print with an afterword by its author that traces the facts upon which it is based

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult