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My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Amos Tutuola's second novel, was first published in 1954. It tells the tale of a small boy who wanders into the heart of a fantastical African forest, the dwelling place of innumerable wild, grotesque and terrifying beings. He is captured by ghosts, buried alive and wrapped up in spider webs, but after several years he marries and accepts his new existence. With the appearance of the television-handed ghostess, however, comes a possible route of escape.
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Amos Tutuola was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria, in 1920. The son of a cocoa farmer, he attended several schools before training as a blacksmith. He later worked as a civil servant. His first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, was published in 1952 and brought him international recognition. From 1956 until retirement, he worked for the Nigerian Broadcasting Company while continuing to write. His last book, The Village Witch Doctor and Other Stories, was published in 1990. He died in Ibadan in 1997.
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(London: Faber and Faber, 1972) 0571058671, 1973
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182 x 120 mm; printed wrappers; pp. 174. Crease to bottom fore-corner of upper cover; wrappers a little rubbed and foxed; some fox spots to edges. Good condition. "Amos Tutuola was born in 1920, of Christian parents, and he received elementary education at the Salvation Army school and later at Lagos High School, not more than six years in all. He became a coppersmith, and continued in this trade in the Royal Air Force in Nigeria for three years during the war. He is now employed in the Labour Department in Lagos. He is married but has no children. Tutuola's writing is original and highly imaginative. His direct style, made more vivid by his use of English as it is spoken in West Africa, is not polished or sophisticated and gives his stories unusual energy." - From the Foreword by Geoffrey Parrinder. Seller Inventory # 14134
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