Description
| Product ID: | 9781845231040 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Caribbean Modern Classics |
| Title: | An Absence of Ruins |
| Authors: | Author: Orlando Patterson |
| Page Count: | 140 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Originally published in 1967, "An Absence of Ruins" is a poignant portrayal of a man shaped by the colonial education of the Caribbean intellectual class. Orlando Patterson offers a devastating critique of middle-class intellectualism through the self-condemning perceptions of the main character, Alexander Blackman, and the vibrant reality of the world he is unable to embrace--the world of the Jamaican working class. An intensive and inward portrayal of what the world looks like to a man who has been shaped by the deeply entrenched consequences of colonialism, this novel is full of sardonic humor and a nihilism that emerges as a kind of integrity. |
| Imprint Name: | Peepal Tree Press Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Peepal Tree Press Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2012-11-30 |