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Product Description: Told by Manu, this novel journeys through 18th-century London and Demerara in British Guiana, recounting experiences that might be dreamed or remembered. With a diverse castâincluding slaves, lowly women on the make, lustful overseers, sodomites, and pious Jewsâthese characters come alive from artist William Hogarthâs engravings; Hogarth himself also appears as a drunkard official artist in Demerara, from whom the slave Cato steals his skills and discovers a way of remaking his world...read more
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9781845232184 | Peepal Tree Pr Ltd, August 1, 2013, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Told by Manu, this novel journeys through 18th-century London and Demerara in British Guiana, recounting experiences that might be dreamed or remembered.
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9780192804396 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 19, 2007, cover price $65.00
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9780199578771 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 6, 2010, cover price $21.95
9780199238941 | Revised edition (Oxford Univ Pr, November 18, 2008), cover price $21.95
Product Description: Denis Williams, painter, teacher, novelist, archaeologist, and cultural administrator, is one of the founding fathers of modern Guyana. His involvement in several of the country's key cultural institutions and his pioneering work on Guyana's founding peoples ensures him a special place in the country's history books...read more
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9789042027916 | Rodopi Bv Editions, March 31, 2010, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Denis Williams, painter, teacher, novelist, archaeologist, and cultural administrator, is one of the founding fathers of modern Guyana.
Product Description: Set in the British town of Coventry in the early 1990s, this novel centers on Lance Yardley, a drama critic for a local newspaper. Only 30-years-old, he is already a seedy wreck of a man, spending his nights drifting through the back streets and derelict areas of the city looking for prostitutes...read more
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9781845231125 | Peepal Tree Pr Ltd, April 1, 2009, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Set in the British town of Coventry in the early 1990s, this novel centers on Lance Yardley, a drama critic for a local newspaper.
9781845230692 | Gardners Books, September 15, 2008, cover price $16.75 | About this edition: Set in the British town of Coventry in the early 1990s, this novel centers on Lance Yardley, a drama critic for a local newspaper.
Product Description: Molly is raised in the harsh surroundings of Accrington, Lancashire, during the years leading up to World War Two. Systematically abused by her father and his band of pals, becoming consummate in sex and hatred at an early age, she matures into a wounded and broken creature, half soothsayer, half madwoman: a creation to rival the fabulous beings of Guyanese myth...read more
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9780230028708 | Macmillan Caribbean, June 1, 2008, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Molly is raised in the harsh surroundings of Accrington, Lancashire, during the years leading up to World War Two.
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9781845230043 | Peepal Tree Pr Ltd, May 30, 2006, cover price $17.95
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9780436200076 | Secker & Warburg, June 1, 1992, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A semi-autobiographical first novel about rites of passage in London's Asian community.
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9781845230135 | Peepal Tree Pr Ltd, April 30, 2006, cover price $19.95
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9781845230142 | Peepal Tree Pr Ltd, March 16, 2006, cover price $19.95
Product Description: Issues of caste, slavery, racism, and the immigrant experience in the early 19th century are addressed in this novel. Rohini and Vidia, a young married couple struggling for survival in a small, caste-ridden Indian village are seduced by a recruiter's persuasive talk of easy work and plentiful land...read more
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9781845230159 | Peepal Tree Pr Ltd, January 30, 2006, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Issues of caste, slavery, racism, and the immigrant experience in the early 19th century are addressed in this novel.
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9781900715683 | Peepal Tree Pr Ltd, March 1, 2003, cover price $17.95
9780224038959 | Trafalgar Square, October 1, 1995, cover price $15.95
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9781860645877, titled "Hogarth's Blacks: Images of Blacks in Eighteenth Century English Art" | Tauris Academic Studies, August 1, 2001, cover price $19.95
9780820309224, titled "Hogarth's Blacks: Images of Blacks in Eighteenth Century English Art" | Univ of Georgia Pr, April 1, 1987, cover price $16.00
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9780099288725 | Vintage Uk, May 1, 2000, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: This tale reinvents William Hogarth's famous painting of 1732 which tells the story of a whore, a Jewish merchant, a magistrate and a quack doctor, bound together by sexual and financial greed.
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9781900715393 | Peepal Tree Pr Ltd, October 1, 1999, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Book by
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9780748603275 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, January 31, 1994, cover price $55.95
Product Description: Containing extracts from all the major Afro-British writers and many early Black American, West African and Caribbean writers who spent time in Britain, this anthology is a sparkling introduction to the rich tradition of Black British writing...read more
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9780748602674, titled "Black Writers in Britain, 1760-1890" | Edinburgh Univ Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $45.00
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9780748603435 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, September 1, 1993, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Containing extracts from all the major Afro-British writers and many early Black American, West African and Caribbean writers who spent time in Britain, this anthology is a sparkling introduction to the rich tradition of Black British writing.
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9780435911850 | Heinemann, September 1, 1988, cover price $17.50 | also contains Social Work Research | About this edition: Text for teachers of Caribbean literature.
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9781853050831 | Unwin Hyman, March 1, 1988, cover price $39.95
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9780719018084 | Manchester Univ Pr, January 1, 1986, cover price $18.95
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