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Scrapiron blues
- Title
- Scrapiron blues / Dambudzo Marechera ; compiled and edited by Flora Veit-Wild.
- Author
- Marechera, Dambudzo.
- Publication
- Harare, Zimbabwe : Baobab Books, 1994
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Veit-Wild, Flora, 1947-
- Description
- xv, [xvi], 250 p. : ill. (some col.); 21 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. xv-[xvi]).
- Language (note)
- In English; 1 story in Shona with a parallel English translation.
- Contents
- Tony fights tonight--pub stories: Smith in dead skin. Dreams wash walls. The power. The shining. Babel. What available reality. Snakes in tracksuits. Riddled with opium. A description of the universe. The pinpocketing roadside preacher. Decline and fall -- Scrapiron blues--city plays: The alley. The breakdown scrapiron blues. The servants' ball. The servants' ball (English translation). Alien to the people. Killwatch -- First Street tumult--more city stories: First Street tumult. The skin of loneliness. Black Damascus Road. Evening star over 28 Highlands Avenue. Fragments -- When rainwords spit fire--a township novella -- The concentration camp -- Fuzzy Goo's stories for children: Tony and the Rasta. The magic cat. Baboons of the rainbow. Fuzzy Goo's guide to the earth.
- Call Number
- Sc D 97-1459
- ISBN
- 0908311702
- LCCN
- 95981940 //r96
- OCLC
- 34114576
- Author
- Marechera, Dambudzo.
- Title
- Scrapiron blues / Dambudzo Marechera ; compiled and edited by Flora Veit-Wild.
- Imprint
- Harare, Zimbabwe : Baobab Books, 1994 (1995 printing)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. xv-[xvi]).
- Language
- In English; 1 story in Shona with a parallel English translation.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Veit-Wild, Flora, 1947-
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 97-1459