Kipling Plass - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Peepal Tree PressISBN-13:9781845235925ISBN-10:1845235924UPC:9781845235925Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Coming of Age, Cultural HeritageProduct ID:SCSA4FND8B
Moving, shocking, lyrical and sometimes grimly funny, Kipling Plass must survive as teenager abandoned by his mother after her mental breakdown. Set in a multiracial Guyanese village in the 1980s, at the height of that country's economic collapse, as social structures give way, the novel confronts the tensions between social solidarity and dog-eat-dog individualistic ruthlessness. Amid this, Kipling Plass narrates his and his teenage friends' struggles for both physical and emotional survival, amidst their own confusions of sexual and social identity. A heartbreaking story of family trauma, sexuality, friendship and growing up, Kipling Plass is an epic portrayal of 1980s Guyana that is rarely seen in fiction.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Peepal Tree PressISBN-13:9781845235925ISBN-10:1845235924UPC:9781845235925Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Coming of Age, Cultural HeritageProduct ID:SCSA4FND8B
Berkley Wendell Semple was born in Guyana. He has published four collections of poetry, and his poetry and fiction have appeared in Callaloo, The Hampden-Sydney Review, The Caribbean Writer, and many other publications. He is a veteran of the US armed forces and a graduate of the Naval School of Health Sciences. He holds an MA and MLS degrees from (CUNY) and an MPhil from Long Island University (LIU) where he is a current Ph.D. candidate. Berkley Wendell Semple is a librarian and currently works for the Queens Public Library system in New York City.
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