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No pain like this body : a novel / Harold Sonny Ladoo.
Van Pelt Library PR9272.9.L25 N6 2013
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ladoo, Harold Sonny, 1945-1973, author.
- Series:
- A List (House of Anansi Press Inc.)
- A list
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caribbean Area--Fiction.
- Caribbean Area.
- Families--Fiction.
- Families.
- Genre:
- Canadian fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 129 pages : 1 illustration, 1 map ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, ON : House of Anansi Press Inc., 2013.
- Summary:
- Set in the Eastern Caribbean at the beginning of the twentieth century, No Pain Like this Body describes the perilous existence of a poor rice-growing family during the August rainy season. Their struggles to cope with illness, a drunken and unpredictable father, and the violence of the elements end in unbearable loss. Through vivid, vertiginous prose, and with brilliant economy and originality, Ladoo creates a fearful world of violation and grief, in the face of which even the most despairing efforts to endure stand out as acts of raw courage.
- Notes:
- "First published in 1972 by House of Anansi Press Ltd."--Title page verso.
- "Introduction by David Chariandy"--Cover.
- Other Format:
- Ladoo, Harold Sonny, 1945-1973, author. No pain like this body./
- ISBN:
- 9781770893740
- 1770893741
- 9781770893795
- 1770893792
- OCLC:
- 847332537
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