{"id":57929,"date":"2019-04-18T01:07:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T01:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57929"},"modified":"2019-04-18T01:07:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T01:07:10","slug":"liana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57929","title":{"rendered":"Liana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Liana<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Charles Scribner&#8217;s Sons<br \/>\n1944<br \/>\n285 pages<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martha_Gellhorn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Liana.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Her Color Was No Barrier<span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">\u2014<\/span>To Men<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A French-owned island of the Caribbean is the setting for a haunting story of the tragedy of a marriage between a lovely, untutored <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\">mulatto<\/a> and a rich, lonely white man. He has married her to spite the woman he wants and loves<span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">\u2014<\/span>and has failed; he has reaped ridicule where he had had envy. Then comes on the scene a bitter young French refugee, in love with his last century, detached from the pitfulls and vices of a trepical island community. More hires him to teach Liana<span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">\u2014<\/span>he leaves then to their own devices\u2014and then is startled into jealous suspicion when infidelity is whispered. The thought is fertile seed<span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">\u2014<\/span>and emotional complications confuse the issues of young Pierra&#8217;s desire to serve his country. A tragic ending sounds the inevitable finals to an impasse. Simply told, with emotional undertones. \u2014<em>Kirkus Reviews<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her Color Was No Barrier\u2014To Men<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21,8,15],"tags":[29711,29712,29710],"class_list":["post-57929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-novels","tag-charles-scribners-sons","tag-martha-ellis-gellhorn","tag-martha-gellhorn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57931,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57929\/revisions\/57931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}