Wednesday, January 7, 2009

A Quality of Violence

A Quality of violence
Salkey, Andrew
London ; New York : New Authors Limited, 1959.
205 p. ; 21 cm




Historical novel of the drought of 1900 in rural Jamaica. Ten years after the arrival of the HMS Windrush with the first group of immigrants from the Caribbean; growing racial unrest in Britain and political unrest in Jamaica; note rugged linear design of figures. Reprinted 1962, New English Library; in Carberry Collection.

H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago Library
Daley Library - Special Collections/3rd floor (non-circ.)
PR9265.9.S2 Q83 1959

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