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   In her first book in forty-seven years, Dorothy West, the final surviving person in the Harlem Renaissance, provides an intimate look into Africanamerican center class.  Set on rustic Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s, The Wedding tells the tale of living inside the Square, a happy, insular neighborhood comprised of the very best and brightest of the East Coast's dark bourgeoisie.  In this inner-circle of "orange-vein culture," we see the notable Coles family gather for the wedding of the loveliest child, Shelby, who could have selected from "an entire section of qualified males of the right shades and the right Occupations." Alternatively, she's fallen in deep love with and is approximately to be committed to Meade Wyler, a white jazz musician from Ny. As its long-time people deal with the changing experience of its community.   With stylish, luminous writing a shock-wave breaks within the Square, Dorothy West crowns her literary career by showing one-family's find it difficult to break the shackles of class and race.