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This novel is a treatment of the theme of corruption wrought by poverty. It is the story of an upright man resisting the temptations of easy bribes and easy satisfactions and winning for his honesty nothing but scorn even from those he loves.
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Grave, earnest, contemplative and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Ayi Kwei Armah
- First published
- 1968
- Pages
- 215
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin, 1968., Heinemann, Collier Books
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780435900434
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