The Ventriloquist's Tale by Melville, Pauline - 1998

Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, 1998-03-31. paperback. Good. 81x15x124.

Trafalgar Square, 1998. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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Trafalgar Square. Used - Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Trafalgar Square, 1998-04-02. Paperback. Good.

Paperback. Very Good.

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London: Trafalgar Square, 1998. Very Good. In Melville's ambitious and richly realized debut set in modern-day Guyana, religious, social and philosophical tensions beset all the characters. Two illicit love affairs are the vertebrae of an absorbing story set against t he background of colonial life in exotic surroundings. One doomed romance i s the adulterous liaison between Chofy McKinnon, a half-Scot, half-Indian, cattle rancher, and Rosa Mendelson, a British scholar researching Evelyn Wa ugh's visit to the country in the 1930s. Chofy meets Rosa on a trip to Guya na's capital, Georgetown, to see his aunt Wifreda, a hospitalized old woman on the verge of going blind. As Wifreda reminisces about her childhood, th e narrative plunges into the story of the previous generation, telling of a n incestuous affair between Chofy's uncle Danny and Beatrice, Danny's siste r. Wifreda deliberately betrays Beatrice, who, humiliated, exiles herself t o Canada. Beatrice also blames the British missionary Father… Read More

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