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No sweetness here / Ama Ata Aidoo.

LIBRA - Rare PR9379.9.A35 N6 1972 Banks copy
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Van Pelt Library PR6051.I33 N6 1972
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Aidoo, Ama Ata, 1942-2023, 1942-, author.
Contributor:
Mphahlele, Es'kia, 1919-2008, introduction writer.
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Series:
Doubleday anchor books ; A 849.
A Doubleday Anchor book ; A 849
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Manners and customs.
Ghana--Social life and customs--Fiction.
Ghana.
Short stories, Ghanaian (English).
Genre:
Fiction.
Short stories.
Penn Provenance:
Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
Physical Description:
xxiv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 166 pages, 8 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm.
Distribution:
Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Place of Publication:
Garden City, New York, Anchor Books, 1972.
Contents:
Everything counts
For whom things did not change
In the cutting of a drink
The message
Certain winds from the South
No sweetness here
A gift from somewhere
Two sisters
The late Bud
Something to talk about on the way to the funeral
Other versions.
Notes:
" ... first published in the United States by America by Doubleday & Company, Inc. in 1971. The Anchor Books edition is published by arrangement with Doubleday & Company, Inc. and Faber and Faber, Ltd., London."
"Anchor Books edition: 1972."
"Cover Design by Jim McWilliams. Cover Painting by Floyd Sowell."
Introduction (pages [ix]-xxiv) by Ezekiel Mphahlele
Publisher's advertisements: [4] pages at end.
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
OCLC:
530274

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