The Chosen Place, The Timeless People

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By Paule Marshall

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The chosen place is Bourneville, a remote, devastated part of a Caribbean island; the timeless people are its inhabitants--black, poor, inextricably linked to their past enslavement. When the advance team for an ambitious American research project arrives, the tense, ambivalent relationships that evolve, between natives and foreigners, black and whites, haves and have-nots, keenly dramatize the vicissitudes of power. "An important and moving book . . . Marshall is as wise as she is bold, for in compromising neither her politics nor her understanding of people, she makes better sense of both."-- Village Voice This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0394726332

ISBN13:9780394726335

Release Date:September 1984

Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Length:480 Pages

Weight:0.97 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 5.2" x 8.0"

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