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The Man Who Ran Away and Other Stories of Trinidad in the 1920s and 1930s

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Alfred H. Mendes was a member of the Beacon group of writers in Trinidad in the 1930s and friend and colleague of C.L.R. James and Ralph de Boissiere. He was a prolific writer, with a distinctive and engaging voice, and he wrote a significant number of short stories, many of which have never been published and most of which were written between 1920 and 1940.

"The Man Who Ran Away" is a collection of twelve stories with an introduction and short glossary of Trinidadian Creole words and phrases. The book is useful as a text for university literature courses, with an introduction designed for students unfamiliar with Mendes's work, but not so dauntingly academic as to discourage a general readership.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9789766401733
  • ISBN-10: 976640173X
  • Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
  • Publish Date: January 2006
  • Dimensions: 9.04 x 6.34 x 0.62 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.72 pounds
  • Page Count: 190

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