New Day
by V.S. Reid
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good, some gently shelf wear and toning to paper edges/Very good dust jacket, chipped spine ends with some rubbed sections and discoloration, rubbed covers with mild edge wear, chippi
- ISBN 10
- 0435987453
- ISBN 13
- 9780435987459
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About This Item
Kingston, Jamaica; London: Sangster's Book Stores with Heinemann, 1970. Second impression by Sangster's Book Stores with Heinemann in 1970; first published by Knopf in 1949. Hardcover, octavo, slate cloth boards with gilt lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 344 pp. Very good, some gently shelf wear and toning to paper edges/Very good dust jacket, chipped spine ends with some rubbed sections and discoloration, rubbed covers with mild edge wear, chipping and some creases; seams of flaps worn and creased with chipped corners. Cover design by Joint Graphics. Considered to be an early work in introducing patois to a new, younger generation by way of a manuscript written entirely in Creole, hardly facilitating its publication.
In his introductory note to this 1970 printing, V.S. Reid recounts a brief history of Jamaica leading up to the opening of his first novel. It's October 1865, the beginning of the Morant Bay Rebellion in St. Thomas Parish, the subject of commemoration in his work, In the wake of a 3 year drought(1863-1865), conditions have severely worsened for the disenfranchised. They saw the wealthiest of land owners crying to the appointed Crown for aid in what they claimed was a debilitated standard of living. Since emancipation had created a scarcity of labor due to workers preference to autonomy in subsistence farming, there grew a rebellion to enrich livelihoods, universal suffrage and government representation. The novel spans the eight decades separating the Morant Bay Rebellion and present day Jamaica through the lives of the fictional Campbell family.
In Reid's own words, this novel is an attempt to "transfer to paper some of the beauty, kindliness, and humour of my people, weaving characters into the wider framework of these eighty years and creating a tale that will offer as true an impression as fiction can of the way by which Jamaica and its people came to today.
In his introductory note to this 1970 printing, V.S. Reid recounts a brief history of Jamaica leading up to the opening of his first novel. It's October 1865, the beginning of the Morant Bay Rebellion in St. Thomas Parish, the subject of commemoration in his work, In the wake of a 3 year drought(1863-1865), conditions have severely worsened for the disenfranchised. They saw the wealthiest of land owners crying to the appointed Crown for aid in what they claimed was a debilitated standard of living. Since emancipation had created a scarcity of labor due to workers preference to autonomy in subsistence farming, there grew a rebellion to enrich livelihoods, universal suffrage and government representation. The novel spans the eight decades separating the Morant Bay Rebellion and present day Jamaica through the lives of the fictional Campbell family.
In Reid's own words, this novel is an attempt to "transfer to paper some of the beauty, kindliness, and humour of my people, weaving characters into the wider framework of these eighty years and creating a tale that will offer as true an impression as fiction can of the way by which Jamaica and its people came to today.
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- Better Read Than Dead (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 816
- Title
- New Day
- Author
- V.S. Reid
- Illustrator
- Cover design by Joint Graphics
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, octavo, slate cloth boards with gilt lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 344 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, some gently shelf wear and toning to paper edges
- Jacket Condition
- Very good dust jacket, chipped spine ends with some rubbed sections and discoloration, rubbed covers with mild edge wear, chippi
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second impression by Sangster's Book Stores with Heinemann in 19
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0435987453
- ISBN 13
- 9780435987459
- Publisher
- Sangster's Book Stores with Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- Kingston, Jamaica; London
- Date Published
- 1970
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