A Harlot&Apos S Progress David Dabydeen Vintage Αγγλικά Βιβλία Fiction Modern

A Harlot\ S Progress Reinvents William Hogarth\ Famous Painting Of 1732 Which Tells The Story Whore Jewish Merchant Magistrate And Quack Doctor Bound Together By Sexual Financial Greed Dabydeen\ Novel Endows Characters With Alternative Potential Lives Redeeming Them For Their Cliched Status As Predators Or Victims Protagonist - In Hogarth Black Slave Boy Dabydeen London\ Oldest Inhabitant Is Forced To Tell His Abolitionists Return Charity He Refuses However Supply Parade Grievances Give Simplistic Account Beatings Abuses Etc Will Not Embark Upon Yet Another Fictional Journey Into Dark Nature Slavery Voyeuristic Delight English Reader Instead Old Man Ties Up Knots Deftly Harlot Her Client: Spins Tale Myths Half-Truths Fantasies Recreating Africa Eighteenth-Century London Startlingly Poetic Ways What Matters Him Odyssey Poetry Rich Texture Narrative Its Truthfulness This Fourth David Opens History Myriad Imaginary Interpretations Repopulating Vanished World Strange Defiantly Vivid Compassionate Humanity Σελίδες: 288 Διαστάσεις: 12 9X12 9Cm