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Nor any country

Title: Nor any country / Garth St. Omer.
Author: St. Omer, Garth.
Publication: London, Faber, 1969.

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110 pages; 20 cm

Summary

"Nor Any Country, first published in 1968, is a profound and elegantly written exploration of the complexities of individual moral choice and an acutely insightful study of a society in the process of change. Education has taken Peter Breville away from his native St Lucia for the past eight years. Now, appointed to a university post in Jamaica, he decides he must see his family on his way from England. There is his mother, whom he loves, his father with whom he has never got on, and his brother, with whom boyhood competition turned sour. And there is Phyllis, his wife, who, through he has not once contacted her since he left, has waited patiently for his return, determined to be a wife to him. In the week he spends with his family and meeting old friends, he discovers a St Lucia that, in the early 1960s, is on the point of emerging into the modern capitalist world, but where the disparities between the new middle class and the impoverished black majority has become even wider. In the midst of this, he must decide what he owes Phyllis"--Goodreads

Subject

Genre/Form

Domestic fiction.
Fiction.

ISBN

057108852X
9780571088522

LCCN

74442892

OCLC

ocm00058857
58857
SCSB-800502

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library