Summary
Can we ever know the truth about the past? David Dabydeen liberates the black slave boy from Hogarth’s 1732 engravings to tell his own story in an exhilarating, vivid series of half-truths, myths and fantasies.
A HARLOT’S PROGRESS reinvents William Hogarth’s famous painting of 1732 which tells the story of a whore, a Jewish merchant, a magistrate and a quack doctor bound together by sexual and financial greed. Dabydeen’s novel endows Hogarth’s characters with alternative potential liv…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099288725 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099288729 |
| Author: | David Dabydeen |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 15 May 2000 |
| Weight: | 202g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 18mm |
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David Dabydeen’s new novel takes as its starting point Hogarth’s painting of 1732…and sets out to release the people it represents - prostitute, merchant, quack doctor and slave boy - from easy moralism, both the artist’s and our own… Dabydeen has an imaginative mastery of the period, and can render it a hundred ways * Observer *Exhilarating…Beguiling and provocative * The Times *The best of the younger generation of Caribbean novelists – Penelope LivelyHis strong vision… suggests that, for the recreation of lost meaning, it is necessary to strike off the fetters of narrative, and be released into poetry. – Hilary Mantel * The Independent *
About The Author
David Dabydeen
David Dabydeen heads the Centre for Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of the novels The Intended, Disappearance, The Counting House, and two earlier books of poetry, Slave Song, which won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, and Coolie Odyssey.
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