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by Claude McKay
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Availability:In StockContributor:Claude McKaySeries:Harvest Book, Hb 273Publish date:1974-03-20Pages:324
Language:EnglishPublisher:Houghton MifflinISBN-13:9780156106504ISBN-10:156106507UPC:9780156106504Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:African American & Black, LiteraryBook Topic:ChristianSize:8.41 x 4.77 x 0.81 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SCS658E99W

"There is an abundant humor to this book and pathos; there is melodrama and the quiet charm of introspective analysis, and above all there is entertainment."--Saturday Review

A novel of love and war, from the author of Home to Harlem

Bita Plant is adopted and sent to England from Jamaica by white missionary benefactors and returns to her home village of Banana Bottom seven years later a beautiful, cultured young lady. Despite the evangelical guidance of her foster parents and friendship with a white squire, Bita is increasingly drawn to the vitality of her more natural culture with its festivals, superstitions, revival meetings, and passionate courtships. Among her many suitors she chooses to marry the quiet, humble man who allows her to be most true to herself.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Houghton MifflinISBN-13:9780156106504ISBN-10:156106507UPC:9780156106504Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:African American & Black, LiteraryBook Topic:ChristianSize:8.41 x 4.77 x 0.81 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SCS658E99W
McKay, Claude: - Claude McKay (1889-1948), born Festus Claudius McKay, is widely regarded as one of the most important literary and political writers of the interwar period and the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Jamaica, he moved to the U.S. in 1912 to study at the Tuskegee Institute. In 1928, he published his most famous novel, Home to Harlem, which won the Harmon Gold Award for Literature. He also published two other novels, Banjo and Banana Bottom, as well as a collection of short stories, Gingertown, two autobiographical books, A Long Way from Home and My Green Hills of Jamaica, and a work of nonfiction, Harlem: Negro Metropolis. His Selected Poems was published posthumously, and in 1977 he was named the national poet of Jamaica.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

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