a Lesser Dependency

Peter Benson

ISBN 10: 0333490932 / ISBN 13: 9780333490938

Published by Macmillan, London, 1989

About this Item

Blue paper covers are a little worn but internally very good. A Play.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: a Lesser Dependency
• Publisher: Macmillan, London
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333490932
• ISBN 13: 9780333490938
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fair+
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

This novel is set in Diego Garcia, a small island in the middle of the Indian Ocean - too small to find on a map and one of the last paradisical outposts of the Empire. The islanders are forced to leave hteir home to make way for a military base for the United States army. Peter Benson has also written the prize-winning novel "The Levels".

Review

'This is polemic touched with poetry. Benson's gift is to capturein strong visual terms the earth-based intuition of those "dropped in the sand and tuned to the rhythms of tiny island life' --The Sunday Times

'The lack of adornment lends the novel the directness of a folk-tale and sharpens its sting' --The Independent

'A powerful political novel which makes its case all the more forcefully for being so restrained' --The Guardian