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Grounds for tenure : a novel / Barbara Lalla.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lalla, Barbara, 1949- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- College teachers--Fiction.
- College teachers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (362 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Kingston, Jamaica : The University of the West Indies Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- A gifted young scholar clings desperately to part-time employment at a Caribbean university. Then, a post opens up on an unknown offshore campus in Portmore, Jamaica. Into this harsh yet delicate terrain ventures Candace Clarke, bent on taking root in an academic world.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Prologue to a Tale
- 1 Headhunter
- 2 Spent on Books and Learning
- 3 The Road In
- 4 Hazard
- 5 The Fellowship
- 6 The Project
- 7 Deadly
- 8 Of Chambers Long
- 9 Fields of Enquiry
- 10 Long-Time Story
- 11 Crooked
- 12 Endowment
- 13 Balade
- 14 The Scourge
- 15 Banquet
- 16 Of High Degree
- 17 Matter of Authority
- 18 Fall
- 19 Memento
- Acknowledgements.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9789766406233
- 9766406235
- OCLC:
- 1393305464
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