Small Island
by Andrea Levy
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0755307518
- ISBN 13
- 9780755307517
- Seller
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Arlington, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
London: Headline Review, 2004. Paperback. First Edition, second paperback printing. Near Fine. Interior unmarked. Spine straight and tight but creased. Covers clean. Stickers from Giggles Bookshop, Madras, India to rear cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 441 pages.
Winner of the Whitbread, Orange and Commonwealth Writer's Prizes. Hortense shared Gilbert's dream of leaving Jamaica and coming to England to start a better life. But when she at last joins her husband, she is shocked by London's shabbiness and horrified at the way the English live. Even Gilbert is not the man she thought he was. Queenie's neighbors do not approve of her choice of tenants, and neither would her husband, were he there. Through the stories of these people, Small Island explores a point in England's past when the country began to change.
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- Bookseller
- Books of the World (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000000199
- Title
- Small Island
- Author
- Andrea Levy
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, second paperback printing
- ISBN 10
- 0755307518
- ISBN 13
- 9780755307517
- Publisher
- Headline Review
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2004
- Pages
- 441
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- fiction, immigration, immigrants, racism, Caribbean, West Indian, Jamaican, London, England
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Asia; Britain; Caribbean; Race, Racism, Prejudice;
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