Arrival of the Snake-Woman: And Other Stories

by Olive Senior

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The Toronto author's Jamaican birthplace provides the setting for these powerful and poignant stories that span a period of roughly 150 years, from the closing days of slavery in 1838 to the 1980s.

The tensions wrought by rapid change and conflicting loyalties are at the heart of these stories, most beautifully evoked in the novella "Arrival of the Snake-Woman". Here a young boy narrates the seminal event of his childhood in the late nineteenth...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1894770536

ISBN13:9781894770538

Release Date:October 2009

Publisher:Tsar Publications

Length:176 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.3" x 5.7" x 8.6"

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Contemporary Education & Reference Fiction Literature & Fiction Short Stories Teen & Young Adult

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