THE POLISHED HOE.
by Clarke, Austin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very near fine in a like dustjacket./like
- ISBN 10
- 0060555653
- ISBN 13
- 9780060555658
- Seller
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About This Item
New York:: Amistad / Harper Collins, , (2003). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First US printing. Powerful novel by this Afro-Canadian writer, set in his native Barbados, and winner of the Giller Prize and The Commonwealth Writers Prize. "When Mary-Mathilda . . calls the police to confess to a crime, the result is a shattering all-night vigil. She claims the crime is against Mr. Belfeels, the powerful manager of the sugar plantation and for whom she has worked for more than thirty years as a field laborer, kitchen help, and maid. She was also Mr. Belfeels's mistress, and the mother of his only son, Wilberforce, a successful doctor, who after living abroad returns to the island. Set in the period following World War II, [this] unravels over the course of twenty-four hours but spans the lifetime of one woman and the collective experience of a society characterized by slavery." 462 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 79913
- Title
- THE POLISHED HOE.
- Author
- Clarke, Austin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
- Jacket Condition
- like
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0060555653
- ISBN 13
- 9780060555658
- Publisher
- Amistad / Harper Collins,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (2003)
- Keywords
- barbados, sugar plantation, historical fiction, Giller Prize, The Commonwealth Writers Prize
- Bookseller catalogs
- Caribbean literature and history;
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