The Nobbie Stories for Children and Adults

by C.L.R. James

Book Overview

After more than a decade in the United States, the Caribbean writer C. L. R. James ran afoul of McCarthyism in 1953 and was deported. In exile in London, he began to write stories in the form of letters to his four-year-old son "Nobbie," who remained in the States. Through a distinctive, imaginary, and sometimes absurd cast of characters--Good Boongko, Bad boo-boo-loo, Moby Dick, and Nicholas the worker, among others--these stories explore questions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803246137
• ISBN13: 9780803246133
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"