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This tale reinvents William Hogarth's famous painting of 1732 which tells the story of a whore, a Jewish merchant, a magistrate and a quack doctor, bound together by sexual and financial greed.
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"David Dabydeen's new novel takes as its starting point Hogarth's painting of 1732...and sets out to release the people it represents - prostitute, merchant, quack doctor and slave boy - from easy moralism, both the artist's and our own... Dabydeen has an imaginative mastery of the period, and can render it a hundred ways." - Observer
"Exhilarating...Beguiling and provocative." - The Times
"The best of the younger generation of Caribbean novelists." - Penelope Lively
David Dabydeen was born in Guyana. He has published three novels and three collections of poetry, and has won a number of prizes. His last novel, The Counting House, was shortlisted for the 1997 IMPAC Award.
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- PublisherVintage UK
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0099288729
- ISBN 13 9780099288725
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- Number of pages288
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