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Jacket front illustration shows a group of people running in the street, some holding signs; baskets of fruit and vegetables in the foreground are overturned. Jacket back illustration shows a figure seated on the ground under an umbrella, alongside a donkey cart filled with produce. Prologue page illustration shows a group of people looking at a "Vacancies" poster on a wall; one man stands with his back to them.

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Title:
Riot
Identifier:
PR9265.9S2R561967
Permalink:
https://n2t.net/ark:/81984/d37v90
Type:
Image
Notes:
William Papas was the illustrator. Summary: Young people's book on civil disturbances on Jamaica's coming to nationhood; last of Salkey's quartet of novels for young people on Caribbean life. The lives of Gerald Manston and his school friends Shifty and Fu were pleasantly uneventful until the "upheaval" came. Then they found themselves deeply involved in the struggle to establish a better way of life for the poorer people of Kingston.


Rights:
Copyright not evaluated
Access:
Public access

Subject--Topic:
Book jackets

Author:
Salkey, Andrew
Contributor:
Papas, William

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:
London (England)
Date of Publication:
1967

Form:
Illustrated works
Color:
Color

Collection Information


Collection:
H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies
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Repository:
University of Illinois at Chicago. Library. Special Collections and University Archives Department (Richard J. Daley Library)
Repository Collection Type:
Rare Books
Repository Location:
Richard J. Daley Library