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Witchbroom
Lawrence Scott
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Description for Witchbroom
Paperback. Witchbroom is a visionary history of a Caribbean Creole family and an island. Its carnival tales of crime and passion are told by the narrator Lavren, who is both male and female. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 196 x 28. Weight in Grams: 366.
Witchbroom is a visionary history of a Caribbean Spanish/French Creole family and an island over four centuries – to 20th-century independence. With an innovative tone and content, its carnival tales of crime and passion are told by the narrator Lavren, who is both male and female. First published in 1992, Witchbroom is a Caribbean classic. The following year it became a BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime, broadcast over eight nights and read by the author. It was shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book. A pioneering work, it heralded a new generation of modernist Caribbean writers who, ... Read more
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Publisher
Papillote Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780993108686
SKU
V9780993108686
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Ref
99-2
About Lawrence Scott
Lawrence Scott is an award-winning Caribbean novelist and short-story writer from Trinidad & Tobago. His first novel Witchbroom (1992, and reissued by Papillote Press in 2017) was a BBC Book at Bedtime, while his second novel, Aelred’s Sin, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book for Canada and the Caribbean in 1999. He is the winner of the Tom-Gallon Trust ... Read more
Reviews for Witchbroom
"Rare and magical. The first of its kind… wonderful evocative language; complete emotional range; a loving, touching insight into human and family relationships." Sam Selvon "This is a wonderful novel: rich, sensuous, quirky, energetic, vividly memorable." Stewart Brown