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Gentleman Jigger: A Novel of the Harlem Renaissance - An important addition to the literature of the period, Gentleman Jigger is the story of two brothers. Aeon, who passes for white and becomes a famous poet, faces the conundrums of love across the color line. Stuartt, who is openly homosexual-as was the author-joins the younger intellectuals of Harlem in defying authority figures, both black and white, at the notorious Niggeratti Manor. After the group disperses, Stuartt moves to Greenwich Village and becomes sexually involved with a young hoodlum. Charming and audacious, Stuartt eventually seduces one of the gangsters top bosses, Orini, before his friendships with Wayne, a young heiress, and Bebe, Orinis moll, set them all spinning in a whirlwind of jazz-age glamour and celebrity...that ends in an ironic dnouement.


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⚡️Book Title : Gentleman Jigger: A Novel of the Harlem Renaissance
⚡Book Author : Richard Bruce Nugent
⚡Page : 352 pages
⚡Published January 23rd 2008 by Da Capo Press (first published January 22nd 2008)

Gentleman Jigger: A Novel of the Harlem Renaissance

An important addition to the literature of the period, Gentleman Jigger is the story of two brothers. Aeon, who passes for white and becomes a famous poet, faces the conundrums of love across the color line. Stuartt, who is openly homosexual-as was the author-joins the younger intellectuals of Harlem in defying authority figures, both black and white, at the notorious Niggeratti Manor. After the group disperses, Stuartt moves to Greenwich Village and becomes sexually involved with a young hoodlum. Charming and audacious, Stuartt eventually seduces one of the gangsters top bosses, Orini, before his friendships with Wayne, a young heiress, and Bebe, Orinis moll, set them all spinning in a whirlwind of jazz-age glamour and celebrity...that ends in an ironic dnouement.