Guyana Boy (Caribbean Classics)
by Peter Lauchmonen Kempadoo
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1900715562
- ISBN 13
- 9781900715560
- Seller
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About This Item
Leeds, England: Peepal Tree, 2002. Trade Paperback. First Thus. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright, with light reading wear to corners. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 168 pages.
Through the perspective of a child, this autobiographic novel depicts the extremely hierarchical world of the colonized British Guiana sugar plantation. Lilboy, the narrator, describes the liveliness and closeness of community and the restrictions it places on the opportunities of personal freedom of those working there. However, Lilboy describes how his family and friends cope with their seemingly bleak existences through maintaining their own rice plots, fishing, and celebrating with feasts and festivities. This story recreates the sights, smells, sounds, and other sensual pleasures of a rural childhood within the plantation era.
Synopsis
Originally published: 1960.
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- Bookseller
- Books of the World (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000000641
- Title
- Guyana Boy (Caribbean Classics)
- Author
- Peter Lauchmonen Kempadoo
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1900715562
- ISBN 13
- 9781900715560
- Publisher
- Peepal Tree
- Place of Publication
- Leeds, England
- Date Published
- 2002
- Pages
- 168
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- fiction, autobiography, biography, bildungsromans, farm, labor, labour, plantation, sugar, sugar workers, British Guiana, Guiana, Guyana
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Britain; Caribbean; Guyana;
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