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Island voices; stories from the West Indies. / Selected and Introduced by Andrew Salkey.
LIBRA - Rare PR9327.5 .S2 1970 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Salkey, Andrew, compiler.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manners and customs.
- West Indies--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- West Indies.
- Short stories, West Indian (English).
- West Indian fiction (English).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- Stories from the Caribbean
- Place of Publication:
- New York, Liveright, 1970.
- Contents:
- Village Tragedy / John Hearne (Jamaica)
- The Lost Country / John Hearne
- My Aunt Gold Teeth / V. S. Naipaul (Trinidad)
- The Raffle / V. S. Naipaul
- A Christmas Story / V. S. Naipaul
- Man, in England, You"ve Just Got to Love Animals / Samuel Selvon (Trinidad)
- When Greek Meets Greek / Samuel Selvon
- Gussy and the Boss / Samuel Selvon
- Cane is Bitter / Samuel Selvon
- A Free Country / R. O. Robinson (Jamaica)
- A Shirt Apiece / R. O. Robinson
- Small Islan' Complex / Donald Hinds (Jamaica)
- Busman's Blues / Donald Hinds
- Any Lawful Impediment / Donald Hinds
- The Very Funny Man: A Tale in Two Moods / H. Orlando Patterson (Jamaica)
- One for a Penny / H. Orlando Patterson
- The Valley of Cocoa / Michael Anthony (Trinidad)
- Pita of the Deep Sea / Michael Anthony
- Triumph / C. L. R. James (Trinidad)
- La Divina Pastora / C. L. R. James
- Birds of a Feather / George Lamming (Barbados)
- Hunters and Hunted / Jan Carew (British Guiana)
- The Stragglers / Claude Thompson (Jamaica)
- The House of Many Doors / Claude Thompson
- Miss Clarke is Dying / Edgar Mittelholzer (British Guiana)
- A Long Long Pause / Denis Williams (British Guiana)
- The Wintering of Mr. Kolawole / O. R. Dathorne (British Guiana)
- The Black Angel / Edward Braithwaite (Barbados)
- The Silk-Cotton Tree / A. N. Forde (Barbados)
- Set Down This / Cecil Gray (Trinidad)
- Notes:
- Design by Al Nagy.
- "L-29"--On cover and spine.
- Originally published as 'Stories from the Caribbean' by Elek Books Limited 1965.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-256).
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 0871405040
- 0871400246
- OCLC:
- 78666
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