Tropic Death
New York : Liveright Pub. Corporation, [2013]
Format: Book
Description: 191 pages . ; 22 cm
This book of stories viscerally charts the days of men working stone quarries or building the Panama Canal, of women tending gardens and rearing needy children. Addressing issues of skin colour and class, Walrond imbued his stories with a compassion for lives controlled by the whims of nature.
Contents:
Drought -- Panama gold -- The yellow one -- The wharf rats -- The palm porch -- Subjection -- The black pin -- The white snake -- The vampire bat -- Tropic death.
Subjects:
Barbados -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Panama -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Barbados -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Panama -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780871403353
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Walrond | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |