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An autobiographical novel of race and class by one of the leading Black writers of the 20th century
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George Lamming was born June 8, 1927 in Carrington s Village, Barbados. He attended Combermere High School. He left Barbados for Trinidad in 1946 to become a teacher, four years later he was to migrate to England to become a writer. In the Castle of My Skin was completed within two years of his arrival in London.
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George Lamming's "In the Castle of My Skin" skilfully depicts the Barbadian psyche. Set against the backdrop of the 1930s riots which helped to pave the way for Independence and the modern Barbados, through the eyes of a young boy, Lamming portrays the social, racial, political and urban struggles with which Barbados continues to grapple even with some thirty-three years of Political Independence from Britain. Required reading for all Caribbean people. The novel also offers non-Barbadians and non-Caribbean people insight into the modern social history of Barbados and the Caribbean.  A writer of the people one is back again in the pages of Huckleberry Finn_ the fundamental book of civilisation Mr Lamming captures the myth-making and myth-dissolving mind of childhood NEW STATESMAN  Its poetic imaginative writing has never been surpassed TRIBUNE  A striking piece of work, a rich and memorable feat of imaginative interpretation THE SPECTATOR  He produces anecdote after anecdote, rich and riotous. THE TIMES  There is not a stock figure in the story fluent, poetical, sophisticated. THE SUNDAY TIMES
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- PublisherSchocken
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0805207503
- ISBN 13 9780805207507
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages303
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