In the Castle of My Skin (Penguin Modern Classics). This item is unavailable.
Language: English
Published by Penguin Classics, 2017
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United KingdomWeBuyBooks
AbeBooks seller since November 14, 2005
Condition: Used - Good
£ 2.43
Item description from seller
Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.
Seller Inventory # rev5149516121
- Title
- In the Castle of My Skin (Penguin Modern Classics)
- Author
- Lamming, George
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0241296064
- ISBN 13
- 9780241296066
- Item weight
- 270 grams
'They won't know you, the you that's hidden somewhere in the castle of your skin'
Nine-year-old G. leads a life of quiet mischief crab catching, teasing preachers and playing among the pumpkin vines. His sleepy fishing village in 1930s Barbados is overseen by the English landlord who lives on the hill, just as their 'Little England' is watched over by the Mother Country. Yet gradually, G. finds himself awakening to the violence and injustice that lurk beneath the apparent order of things. As the world he knows begins to crumble, revealing the bruising secret at its heart, he is spurred ever closer to a life-changing decision. Lyrical and unsettling, George Lamming's autobiographical coming-of-age novel is a story of tragic innocence amid the collapse of colonial rule.
'Rich and riotous' The Times
'Its poetic imaginative writing has never been surpassed' Tribune
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.