A Man of the People
by Chinua Achebe
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385086164
- ISBN 13
- 9780385086165
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday / Anchor Books, 1967. Paperback. "Anchor Books Edition: 1967" / No additional printings listed. No markings. Spine straight and tight. Foxing to top edge. Covers clean with creasing at hinges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 141 pages. Introduction by K. W. J. Post.
Published just days before Nigeria's first attempted coup in 1966, A Man of the People is an essential part of Achebe's body of work. As Minister for Culture, former school teacher M. A. Nanga is a man of the people, as cynical as he is charming, and a roguish opportunist. When Odili, an idealistic young teacher, visits his former instructor at the ministry, the division between them is vast. But in the eat-and-let-eat atmosphere, Odili's idealism soon collides with his lusts--and the two men's personal and political tauntings threaten to send their country into chaos. When Odili launches a vicious campaign against his former mentor for the same seat in an election, their mutual animosity drives the country to revolution.
Synopsis
A Man of the People is a 1966 satirical novel by Chinua Achebe. It is Achebe's fourth novel. The novel tells the story of the young and educated Odili, the narrator, and his conflict with Chief Nanga, his former teacher who enters a career in politics in an unnamed modern African country. Odili represents the changing younger generation; Nanga represents the traditional customs of Nigeria.
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- Bookseller
- Books of the World (US)
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- Title
- A Man of the People
- Author
- Chinua Achebe
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Anchor printing
- ISBN 10
- 0385086164
- ISBN 13
- 9780385086165
- Publisher
- Doubleday / Anchor Books
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1967
- Size
- 12mo
- Keywords
- fiction, literature, corruption, government, political, politics, Nigeria, Africa
- Bookseller catalogs
- Africa; Politics & Government; Fiction;
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