Karl and Other Stories
$38.53
- Paperback
- Release Date
29 May 2025
Summary
In his own wry, pungent and sometimes bitter words, Karl tells how in winning the world, he loses his soul. The child of an unmarried higgler mother who invests all her love in him, Karl’s intelligence wins him a scholarship, a university education and a prestigious job high up in a bank, but the further he ascends the ladder of success the more he remembers the warning of Ras I: “You gwine to Babylon school man.”
In writing a tragicomedy of the two Jamaicas, Velma Pollard uses the fo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781845235987 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1845235983 |
| Author: | Velma Pollard |
| Publisher: | Peepal Tree Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | Peepal Tree Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Release Date: | 29 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 161g |
| Dimensions: | 206mm x 135mm |
| Series: | Caribbean Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Velma Pollard
Velma Pollard writes poetry, fiction and studies of language. She was born in Jamaica and is retired from the University of the West Indies where she was Dean of the Faculty of Education.
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