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On Leaving Paradise
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(1980)
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Descripción hardcover. Condición: Very Good in Dustjacket. 1st edition. New York. 1980. Harcourt Brace & Jovanovich. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0151699216. 312 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Fred Marcellino. keywords: Literature Caribbean Black Trinidad . FROM THE PUBLISHER - This is the dazzling, exuberant, hilarious story of Johnny Sebastian Alexander Caesar Octavian de Paria. Despite the aphrodisiac climate of Trinidad, despite oceans of rum, tons of spices, scores of carnivals, and hordes of ardent young ladies, Johnny is still resolutely a virgin at the age of twenty-one. It is also the story of Aunt Jocasta, a woman of great dignity and Himalayan proportions; Professor Wolfgang von Buffus zu Damnitz, the world's leading authority on urinometrics and everything else; Joe Caldeira, a Portuguese bartender by occupation, a sweetman in his leisure; and Marcellin Gros-Caucaud, a magnificent African of awesome sexual power. In the town of San Fernando, Trinidad, from a swaying hammock under a graceful palm to the smoky interior of the Black Cat Bar, life is joyous for Johnny and his friends. But not for long. A crime of passion, a failed business venture, a venomous snake, and they are all forced to leave paradise. Their chosen route of escape is a sea voyage to England. On the high seas, too, despite the persistent advances of a radish-faced Englishwoman whose rigidity of spine extends to her upper lip, Johnny still preserves his virginity. The ocean liner docks in transit at Madeira, and by grand design Johnny and his entourage converge upon a whorehouse, where they are presented to the cream of local society: a Catholic prelate, a chief rabbi, the prefect of police, a pimp. Now the action really gets rolling. ON LEAVING PARADISE is an elegantly written fable, a pungent satire of colonialism, a sunlit mockery of manners, and above all a grand celebration of youth and sex, lone, and life. inventory #25280. Nº de ref. del artículo: z25280
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ISBN 13: 9780151699216
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Descripción hardcover. 1st edition. New York. 1980. Harcourt Brace & Jovanovich. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. Remainder Mark. 0151699216. 312 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Fred Marcellino. keywords: Literature Caribbean Black Trinidad . FROM THE PUBLISHER - This is the dazzling, exuberant, hilarious story of Johnny Sebastian Alexander Caesar Octavian de Paria. Despite the aphrodisiac climate of Trinidad, despite oceans of rum, tons of spices, scores of carnivals, and hordes of ardent young ladies, Johnny is still resolutely a virgin at the age of twenty-one. It is also the story of Aunt Jocasta, a woman of great dignity and Himalayan proportions; Professor Wolfgang von Buffus zu Damnitz, the world's leading authority on urinometrics and everything else; Joe Caldeira, a Portuguese bartender by occupation, a sweetman in his leisure; and Marcellin Gros-Caucaud, a magnificent African of awesome sexual power. In the town of San Fernando, Trinidad, from a swaying hammock under a graceful palm to the smoky interior of the Black Cat Bar, life is joyous for Johnny and his friends. But not for long. A crime of passion, a failed business venture, a venomous snake, and they are all forced to leave paradise. Their chosen route of escape is a sea voyage to England. On the high seas, too, despite the persistent advances of a radish-faced Englishwoman whose rigidity of spine extends to her upper lip, Johnny still preserves his virginity. The ocean liner docks in transit at Madeira, and by grand design Johnny and his entourage converge upon a whorehouse, where they are presented to the cream of local society: a Catholic prelate, a chief rabbi, the prefect of police, a pimp. Now the action really gets rolling. ON LEAVING PARADISE is an elegantly written fable, a pungent satire of colonialism, a sunlit mockery of manners, and above all a grand celebration of youth and sex, lone, and life. inventory #27619 Very Good in Dustjacket. Remainder Mark. Nº de ref. del artículo: z27619
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On leaving paradise: A novel
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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: Used: Very Good. This is a first edition of the hardcover. Dj has a few chips, but still bright - in mylar. BUY ME!. Nº de ref. del artículo: 67584
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Descripción Condición: Good. 1st. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Nº de ref. del artículo: 4512892-6
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Descripción Hardcover. 312p., remainder mark on edge else very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. African American novelist born in Trinidad. Nº de ref. del artículo: 15905
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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Nº de ref. del artículo: 5159
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