Marsha Hunt, Author Dutton Books $19.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-525-24942-9
The namesake of Hunt's appealing but uneven first novel is a black woman who, with her two sisters, rises from poverty in Oakland, Calif., to find brief fame in an all-girl, Supremes-like singing group. Joy has just died when the book opens, and her
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Marsha Hunt, Author Plume Books $12.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-452-26753-4
Joy, who rose from poverty by forming a Supremes-like singing group with her sisters, is eulogized by the loving woman who raised her and by her less admiring family. According to PW , first-novelist Hunt ``still has much to master in her craft: her
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Marsha Hunt, Author Dutton Books $20 (288p) ISBN 978-0-525-93575-9
Expatriate American Hunt ( Joy ) has set her ambitious second novel in Germantown, Pa., where whites still loyal to the Confederate cause, nominally free blacks and formerly slave-owning Quakers live in uneasy interdependence 50 years after the...
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Marsha Hunt, Author Plume Books $9.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-452-27061-9
Hunt's portrait of the relationship between an Englishman and a haunted young black man in the racially divided Germantown, Pa., of 1913 is marred by caricatures and a forced ending. (Jan.)
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Marsha Hunt, Author HarperCollins Publishers $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-017443-9
This compelling memoir by Hunt, an African American actress and writer (Free), reads like an edge-of-your-seat mystery. After learning from a cousin that her grandmother, Ernestine, who was committed to an insane asylum in the 1920s, was still alive
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