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The chosen place, the timeless people / Paule Marshall.
Van Pelt Library PS3563.A7223 C5 1984
Available
Van Pelt Library PS3563.A7223 C5 1984
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marshall, Paule, 1929-2019
- Series:
- Vintage contemporaries
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 472 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First Vintage Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 1984, c1969.
- Summary:
- The chosen place is Bourneville, a remote, devastated part of a Caribbean island; the timeless people are its inhabitants--black, poor, inextricably linked to their past enslavement. When the advance team for an ambitious American research project arrives, the tense, ambivalent relationships that evolve -- between natives and foreigners, blacks and whites, haves and have-nots -- keenly dramatize the vicissitudes of power.
- ISBN:
- 0394726332
- OCLC:
- 10506925
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