The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
by Ayi Kwei Armah
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Cottage Grove, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Tight, square, uncreased spine has some light sunning. Clean, unmarked interior. Only very gentle shelf-wear. Intro by Christina Ama Ata Aidoo. Lovely cover to this one, featuring a reference to the Ghanaian bus art witnessed by the book's unnamed narrator as he wearily walks home: a brief moment of transcendence after a night spent helping his friend escape the aftermath of a military coup. Painted on the back of a passing bus, alongside the book's title phrase, is 'a single flower, solitary, unexplainable, and very beautiful.' Years later, Armah, who now resides in Senegal and runs Per Ankh: the African Publication Collective, would reflect on the title of his debut novel: 'The phrase "The Beautiful One" is ancient, at least five thousand years old. To professional Egyptologists, it is a praise name for a central figure in Ancient Egyptian culture, the dismembered and remembered Osiris, a sorrowful reminder of our human vulnerability to division, fragmentation and degeneration, and at the same time a symbol of our equally human capacity for unity, cooperative action, and creative regeneration.' 180 pp.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Goodbar Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 931203
- Title
- The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
- Author
- Ayi Kwei Armah
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 3rd Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Collier Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1973
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Goodbar Books
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Cottage Grove, Oregon
About Goodbar Books
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- Spine
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