- Fiction, Social classes, Social life and customs, Fiction, short stories (single author)
There is a strong belief among devotees of C.L.R. James that it is not possible to have full comprehension of Caribbean literary art in English without first reading Minty Alley. Although frequently reprinted in the United Kingdom, Minty Alley at last reaches the United States.
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Prestige, earnest, grave and contemplative.
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
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About the book
- First published
- 1936
- Pages
- 247
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited, New Beacon Books Ltd, M. Secker & Warburg, ltd.
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780241992654
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Trinidadian historian and journalist who sometimes wrote under the name J. R. Johnson
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