Suchen
Anmelden
  • Startseite

  • Kategorien

  • Hörbücher

  • E-Books

  • Für Kinder

  • Top-Listen

  • Hilfe

  • App herunterladen

  • Gutscheincode verwenden

  • Geschenkkarte einlösen

  • Jetzt kostenlos testen
  • Anmelden
  • Sprache

    🇦🇹 Österreich

    • AT
    • EN

    🇧🇪 Belgique

    • FR
    • EN

    🇩🇰 Danmark

    • DK
    • EN

    🇩🇪 Deutschland

    • DE
    • EN

    🇪🇸 España

    • ES
    • EN

    🇫🇷 France

    • FR
    • EN

    🇳🇱 Nederland

    • NL
    • EN

    🇳🇴 Norge

    • NO
    • EN

    🇨🇭 Schweiz

    • DE
    • EN

    🇫🇮 Suomi

    • FI
    • EN

    🇸🇪 Sverige

    • SE
    • EN
  1. Bücher
  2. Romane und Erzählungen
  3. Moderne Romane

Lese und höre kostenlos für 14 Tage lang kostenlos!

Jederzeit kündbar

Jetzt kostenlos testen
0.0(0)

Defending Alice : A Novel of Love and Race in the Roaring Twenties

“Gripping courtroom drama and social commentary . . . the story flows well . . . [the author is] masterful in building suspense.”—Kirkus Reviews

Set in 1920s New York, an addictively readable, thoroughly entertaining historical novel involving sex and secrets, race and redemption, and power and privilege—based on a sensational real-life case that made international headlines—in which the marriage between a working-class black woman and the scion of one of America’s most powerful white families ends in a scandalous annulment lawsuit.

When Alice Jones, a blue-collar woman with at least one Black parent marries Leonard “Kip” Rhinelander, the son of one of New York’s most prominent society families, the scandal rocks high society—and eventually sets the city afire when Kip later sues for an annulment, accusing Alice of having hidden her “Negro blood” and intentionally deceiving him that she was white.

While New York society in the Roaring Twenties witnessed more than a few scandals, the real-life Rhinelander case set tongues wagging and became perhaps the most examined interracial relationship in American history. In Defending Alice, Richard Stratton reimagines this remarkable story, from the couple’s courtship through their controversial marriage to their shocking divorce trial and its aftermath. Chronicled by Alice’s attorney, brilliant trial lawyer Lee Parsons Davis, and told in flashbacks and entries from Alice and Kip’s fictional personal diaries, this epic page-turner vividly brings to life the New York of a century ago—a world seemingly far removed yet tragically familiar to our own.

Stratton brilliantly evokes this dazzling era in all its glamour and excess, and in retelling the Rhinelander story, explores issues of sex, race, class, prejudice, and justice that are as relevant today as they were a century ago when this headline-making trial took place.


Autor*in:

  • Richard Stratton

Sprecher*innen:

  • James Anderson Foster
  • Imani Jade Powers
  • Joel Froomkin

Format:

  • Hörbuch

Dauer:

  • 19 h 17 min

Sprache:

Englisch

Kategorien:

  • Romane und Erzählungen
  • Moderne Romane
  • Traditionelle Geschichten
  • Historische Romane
  • Romane und Erzählungen
  • Biografische Romane

Mehr von Richard Stratton

Liste überspringen
  1. Smuggler : My Life as One of America's Most Wanted International Drug Traffickers

    Richard Stratton

    book

Andere haben auch gelesen

Liste überspringen
  1. What Happened to Nina?

    Dervla McTiernan

    audiobook
  2. The House on Rye Lane

    Susan Allott

    audiobook
  3. Not Dark Yet : A DCI Banks Novel

    Peter Robinson

    audiobook
  4. The Blue Hour : A Novel

    Paula Hawkins

    audiobook
  5. In the Shadow of Denali

    Kimberley Woodhouse, Tracie Peterson

    audiobook
  6. In the Shadow of Spindrift House

    Mira Grant

    audiobook
  7. The Witch's Dream

    Victoria Danann

    audiobook
  8. The Seeker

    Elizabeth Hunter

    audiobook
  9. Dragon Warrior

    Janet Chapman

    book
  10. Prince of Air and Darkness

    M.A. Grant

    audiobook
  11. The Only Suspect : A 'twisting, seductive, ingenious' thriller from the bestselling author of The Other Passenger

    Louise Candlish

    audiobook
  12. Orchid

    Jayne Castle

    audiobookbook

Hilfe und Kontakt


Über uns

  • Unsere Geschichte
  • Karriere
  • Presse
  • Barrierefreiheit
  • Partner werden
  • Investor Relations
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Entdecken

  • Kategorien
  • Hörbücher
  • E-Books
  • Zeitschriften
  • Für Kinder
  • Top-Listen

Beliebte Kategorien

  • Krimis
  • Biografien und Reportagen
  • Romane und Erzählungen
  • Feelgood und Romance
  • Ratgeber
  • Kinderbücher
  • Tatsachenberichte
  • Schlaf und Entspannung

Nextory

Urheberrecht © 2025 Nextory AB

Datenschutzrichtlinien · Bedingungen · Impressum ·
Ausgezeichnet4.3 von 5