Suspended Sentences: Fictions of Atonement Contributor(s): McWatt, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 1845230019 ISBN-13: 9781845230012 Publisher: Peepal Tree Press OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2005 Annotation: When a group of graduating students is caught vandalizing an exclusive Guyanese club, their punishment is to write a short story about the newly independent Guyana. Years later, as a tribute to the life of one of the former classmates now feared dead, the author has collected the rest of the stories written by his classmates. The group of stories works like Chaucerian tales to slowly reveal their teller as well as to chart the history and future of Guyanese fiction. |
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BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.79" H x 7.01" W x 8.09" (0.67 lbs) 220 pages |
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Publisher Description: When a group of graduating students is caught vandalizing an Guyanese club, their punishment is to write a short story about newly independent Guyana. This book includes these stories, which work like Chaucerian tales to reveal their teller as well as to chart the history and future of Guyanese fiction. |