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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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Additional Authors
Veit-Wild, Flora, 1947-
Description
xv, [xvi], 250 p. : ill. (some col.); 21 cm.
Subject
  • Short stories, Southern African (English)
  • Zimbabwean fiction (English)
  • Zimbabwean drama (English)
  • Zimbabwe > Fiction
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
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