In The Castle Of My Skin.

Beschreibung

First American edition of the author's first novel, which was championed by eminent figures such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Richard Wright. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, inscription to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Leo Manso. Endpapers and frontispiece by Denis Williams. Introduction by Richard Wright. Barbadian writer George Lammingâ s first and much acclaimed autobiographical novel, In the Castle of My Skin, follows the events in a young boy's life in the 1930s in Carrington Village, Barbados, where the author was born and raised. The novel won a Somerset Maugham Award and was championed by eminent figures Jean-Paul Sartre and Richard Wright, the latter writing an introduction to the book's US edition. "A striking piece of work, a rich and memorable feat of imaginative interpretation" (The Spectator).

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Titel

In The Castle Of My Skin.

Verlag

McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York

Erscheinungsjahr

1953

Einband

Hardcover

Auflage

1. Auflage

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Schutzumschlag

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