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West Indian stories. / edited by Andrew Salkey.
LIBRA - Rare PR9327.5 .W3 1968 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Salkey, Andrew, editor.
- Series:
- Faber paper covered editions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manners and customs.
- West Indies--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- West Indies.
- Short stories, West Indian (English).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 224 pages ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London, Faber and Faber, 1968.
- Contents:
- A morning at the office / Edgar Mittelholzer (British Guiana)
- We know not whom to mourn / Edgar Mittleholzer
- A wedding in spring / George Lamming (Barbados)
- Of thorns and thistles / George Lamming
- At the Stelling / John Hearne (Jamaica. Born in Canada)
- The wind in this corner / John Hearne
- Knock on wood / Samuel Selvon (Trinidad)
- My girl and the city / Samuel Selvon
- Calypsonian / Samuel Selvon
- Waiting for Aunty to cough / Samuel Selvon
- The coming of Amalivaca / Jan Carew (British Guiana)
- Mr. Dombey, the Zombie / Geoffrey Drayton (Barbados)
- The covenant / Wilson Harris (British Guiana)
- Jamaican fragment / A.L. Hendricks (Jamaica)
- Arise, my love / Jan Williams (Trinidad. Born in England)
- There's always the angels / F.A. Collymore (Barbados)
- The fig-tree and the villager / Roy Henry (Jamaica)
- My fathers before me / Karl Sealey (Barbados)
- The tallow pole / Barnabas J. Ramon Fortuné (Trinidad)
- Blackout / Roger Mais (Jamaica)
- Crossroads nowhere / Stuart Hall (Jamaica)
- Waterfront bar / V.S. Reid (Jamaica)
- Drunkard of the river / Michael Anthony (Trinidad)
- Minutes of grace / E.R. Braithwaite (British Guiana)
- Ars longa; vita brevis / John Figueroa (Jamaica)
- Notes:
- "First published in 1960 by Faber and Faber Limited ... First published in this edition 1968 ..."
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy is 1971 reprint.
- ISBN:
- 0571086306
- 9780571086306
- OCLC:
- 26605
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