In the Castle of My Skin

Author: George Lamming
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241296080
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 402

Book Description
'They won't know you, the you that's hidden somewhere in the castle of your skin' Nine-year-old G. leads a life of quiet mischief crab catching, teasing preachers and playing among the pumpkin vines. His sleepy fishing village in 1930s Barbados is overseen by the English landlord who lives on the hill, just as their 'Little England' is watched over by the Mother Country. Yet gradually, G. finds himself awakening to the violence and injustice that lurk beneath the apparent order of things. As the world he knows begins to crumble, revealing the bruising secret at its heart, he is spurred ever closer to a life-changing decision. Lyrical and unsettling, George Lamming's autobiographical coming-of-age novel is a story of tragic innocence amid the collapse of colonial rule. 'Rich and riotous' The Times 'Its poetic imaginative writing has never been surpassed' Tribune

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Author: Shirley Jackson
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822212263
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86

Book Description
THE STORY: The home of the Blackwoods near a Vermont village is a lonely, ominous abode, and Constance, the young mistress of the place, can't go out of the house without being insulted and stoned by the villagers. They have also composed a nasty s

Natives of My Person

Author: George Lamming
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472064670
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
This allegorical novel tells the story of a journey of a slave ship toward San Christobal during the early colonial period.

Tuesdays at the Castle

Author: Jessica Day George
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408831988
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
A magical castle with a life of its own ... and a plucky princess who will defend it at all cost

The Emigrants

Author: George Lamming
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472064700
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
A compelling and intricate novel of emigration and the effects of colonialism on a people

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Author: Shirley Jackson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Castles
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.

The Castle on Hester Street

Author: Linda Heller
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689874340
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
Julie's grandmother deflates many of her husband's tall tales about their journey from Russia to America and their life on Hester Street.

The Pleasures of Exile

Author: George Lamming
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472064663
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
An examination of the effects of colonialism on those who are held in check

Season of Adventure

Author: George Lamming
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472066551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description
Caribbean novelist George Lamming's classic novel of magic, politics, and cultural identity

I Capture the Castle

Author: Dodie Smith
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466842121
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
One of the 20th Century's most beloved novels is still winning hearts! I Capture the Castle tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Here she strives, over six turbulent months, to hone her writing skills. She fills three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries. Her journals candidly chronicle the great changes that take place within the castle's walls, and her own first descent into love. By the time she pens her final entry, she has "captured the castle"-- and the heart of the reader-- in one of literature's most enchanting entertainments. “This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met.” -- J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series