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The Intended
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- Book Synopsis
- Talks about the narrator, who is twelve when he leaves his village in Guyana to come to England, where he is abandoned by his father into social care, but later wins a scholarship to Oxford. Featuring the narrator's Guyanese childhood and youth in working-class Balham, this novel explores the cost to his personality of losing that past.
- About The Author
- David Dabydeen was born in Guyana. He was sent to England at the age of twelve, and was in care until he was sixteen. He read English at Cambridge, and has published seven earlier novels and three collections of poetry. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. In 2008 he was awarded the prestigious Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Award.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781845230135
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Peepal Tree Press, (30 November 2005)
- Weight
- 225 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 206 x 406 x 22 mm
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