In The Castle Of My Skin.

Lamming, George; Introduction by Richard Wright

Published by McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1953

About this Item

First American edition of the author's first novel, which was championed by eminent figures such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Richard Wright. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, inscription to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Leo Manso. Endpapers and frontispiece by Denis Williams. Introduction by Richard Wright. Barbadian writer George Lammingâ s first and much acclaimed autobiographical novel, In the Castle of My Skin, follows the events in a young boy's life in the 1930s in Carrington Village, Barbados, where the author was born and raised. The novel won a Somerset Maugham Award and was championed by eminent figures Jean-Paul Sartre and Richard Wright, the latter writing an introduction to the book's US edition. "A striking piece of work, a rich and memorable feat of imaginative interpretation" (The Spectator).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In The Castle Of My Skin.
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York
• Publication Date: 1953
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Edition