Gather the Faces - Softcover

Gilroy, Beryl

 
9780948833885: Gather the Faces
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0948833882 ISBN 13: 9780948833885
Verlag: PEEPAL TREE PR, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Marvella Payne is twenty-seven, works as a secretary for British Rail and has pledged to the congregation of the Church of the Holy Spirit that she will abstain from sex before marriage. When she repulses the groping hands of the trainee deacon, Carlton Springle, she resigns herself to growing old with her mother, father and Bible-soaked aunts. But Aunt Julie has other ideas and finds Marvella a penfriend from her native Guyana. When good fortune allows the couple to meet, Marvella awakens to new possibilities as she realises how bound she has been by the voices of her dependent, cosseted childhood. But will marriage be another entrapment, another loss of self?

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Beryl Gilroy was one of the first West Indian women to come and live in Britain. She arrived from her native Guyana over forty years ago, and, despite holding bachelor and masters degrees, and being a qualified teacher, she was forced to take work as a cleaner, a washer-up and a 'Lady's maid'. Beryl eventually became London's first Black female teacher, her experiences are recorded in Black Teacher, Bogle I'Ouverture Press. She subsequently earned a doctorate and now works as a writer, academic and family therapist.

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Verlag
PEEPAL TREE PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0948833882
ISBN 13 
9780948833885
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
120
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