Amongst Thistles and Thorns

by Austin Clarke

Book Overview

Set in Barbados in the early 1950s, this uncompromising novel depicts the pain of childhood in a world where poverty and blackness are despised, and kids are treated as objects on which adults can take out their self-contempt and frustration. Milton Sobers is a nine-year-old on the run from a series of sadistic beatings from both his schoolmaster and his washer-woman mother. Dreaming of a life in Harlem, which is predominately black, open, and free,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845231473
• ISBN13: 9781845231477
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"