Chinua Achebe Post (1 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Printing. Doubleday / Anchor Books, 1967. Paperback. "Anchor Books Edition: 1967" / No additional printings listed. No markings. Spine straight and tight. Foxing to top edge. Covers clean with creasing at hinges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 141 pages. Introduction by K. W. J. Post. Published just days before Nigeria's first attempted coup in 1966, A Man of the People is an essential part of Achebe's body of work. As Minister for Culture, former school teacher M. A. Nanga is a man of the people, as cynical as he is charming, and a roguish opportunist. When Odili, an idealistic young teacher, visits his former instructor at the ministry, the division between them is vast. But in the eat-and-let-eat atmosphere, Odili's idealism soon collides with his lusts--and the two men's personal and political tauntings threaten to send their country into chaos. When Odili launches a vicious campaign against his former mentor for the same seat in an election, their mutual animosity drives the country to revolution.