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Paperback Amongst Thistles and Thorns Book

ISBN: 1845231473

ISBN13: 9781845231477

Amongst Thistles and Thorns

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Set in Barbados in the early 1950s, this uncompromising novel depicts the pain of childhood in a world where poverty and blackness are despised, and kids are treated as objects on which adults can take out their self-contempt and frustration. Milton Sobers is a nine-year-old on the run from a series of sadistic beatings from both his schoolmaster and his washer-woman mother. Dreaming of a life in Harlem, which is predominately black, open, and free,...

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