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Louisville. 2007. Sarabande Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers . 9781932511505. 107 pages. paperback. Cover illustration by Jan Carew. Cover & text design by Charles Casey Martin. keywords: Literature Caribbean Guyana Black. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In The Guyanese Wanderer, Jan Carew sets a fabulist eye and elegant hand to both old world and new. Combining Caribbean folklore, ghost story, adventure tale, and the literature of European exile, these narratives contain a spirited dialect and colloquial voice that startles and delights. The journey begins in Carew's homeland, among the gaudy parrots, jaguars, and six o'clock bees of Guyana, and then shifts to the boulevards of London and Paris. Carew's characters - hunters and seers, buffoons and book-people - defy convention, especially the strong-willed women. Betina puts her husband in his place with a prospecting knife. Belfon comes of age with the help, and seduction, of Couvade, a preacher-woman. A tagalong hunter named…
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- Title Guyanese Wanderer Stories
- Author Jan Carew
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition Fi
- Pages 152
- Language ENG
- Publisher Sarabande Books, Louisville
- Date July 2007
- Features Glossary, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781932511505
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- Entertainment Weekly, 07/27/2007, Page 71
- Kirkus Reviews, 06/15/2007, Page 568
- Library Journal, 09/01/2007, Page 131
- Publishers Weekly, 05/28/2007, Page 38
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