{"product_id":"9781566891196","title":"The Cotillion: or, One Good Bull Is Half the Herd","description":"\u003cp\u003eBeautiful, high-stepping Yoruba of Harlem is invited to the annual cotillion thrown by African American high society of Queens. Caught between the indifference of her father, the excitement of her social-climbing mother, and her prodigal boyfriend's militancy, Yoruba persuades her sister debutantes to challenge the aging doyennes in one of the most sidesplitting scenes in American literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNominated for a Pulitzer in 1972, Killens's uproarious satire captures the conflicts within black society in the 1960s. \u003ci\u003eThe Cotillion\u003c\/i\u003e is the fourth title in Coffee House Press's acclaimed \u003ci\u003eBlack Arts Movement\u003c\/i\u003e series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Oliver Killens\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Macon, Georgia in 1916. Co-founder of the Harlem Writers Guild, he taught at Howard and Columbia Universities. His other novels include \u003ci\u003eAnd Then We Heard the Thunder, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Great Black Russian.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47017855811824,"sku":"9781566891196","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781566891196_p0.jpg?v=1763788272","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781566891196","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}