Love Story Black: A Novel

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Demby, William, author | Reed, Ishmael, [date] other Title: Love story black : a novel / William Demby ; introduction by Ishmael Reed. William Demby Love Story Black William Demby was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on December 25, 1922, and attended college in Clarksburg, West Virginia, before enlisting in World War II and serving in Italy. Anyway love is nothing but a bourgeois fantasy trip—” The program was late starting, but finally the lights that glared down over the gathering from the ceiling overhead (faded angels and esoteric religious patterns from the days when the edifice had been an Orthodox Greek church) dimmed and Gracie stepped up to the microphone.