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A question of power / Bessie Head.

LIBRA - Rare PR9369.3.H4 Q47 1974 Banks copy
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Head, Bessie, 1937-1986, author.
Contributor:
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Series:
African writers series ; 149.
African writers series ; 149
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Women refugees--Fiction.
Women refugees.
Women teachers--Fiction.
Women teachers.
Botswana.
Botswana--Fiction.
Genre:
Fiction.
Penn Provenance:
Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
Physical Description:
206 pages ; 19 cm.
Place of Publication:
London : Heinemann [Educational Books, 1974]
Summary:
It is never clear to Elizabeth whether the mission principal's cruel revelations of her origins is at the bottom of her mental breakdown, but in the dark loneliness of the Botswanan night, the frightened South African refugee slips in and out of sanity.
Contents:
Part One. Sello
Part Two. Dan.
Notes:
"An H.E.B. Paperback"
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
Banks Collection copy has marginal mark and ms. annotation.
ISBN:
0435901494 :
9780435901493
0435907204
9780435907204
0435907212
9780435907211
OCLC:
1049335

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