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The palm-wine drinkard and his dead palm-wine tapster in the Dead's Town / Amos Tutuola.

By:

Tutuola, Amos

Series: Faber paper covered editionsPublication details: London, Faber and Faber [1952]Description: 125 pages 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

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volume

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Additional physical formats: Palm-wine drinkard and his dead palm-wine tapster in the Dead's Town.DDC classification:

F Tut

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Summary: This classic novel tells the phantasmagorical story of an alcoholic man and his search for his dead palm-wine tapster. As he travels through the land of the dead, he encounters a host of supernatural and often terrifying beings - among them the complete gentleman who returns his body parts to their owners and the insatiable hungry-creature. Mixing Yoruba folktales with what T. S. Eliot described as a 'creepy crawly imagination', "The Palm-Wine Drinkard" is regarded as the seminal work of African literature.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	National Library of Jamaica	Daphne Douglas Reading Room	F Tut (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		1000000030605
Books	OCLC Data	Rare Books Floor	F Tut (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		0000000003530

This classic novel tells the phantasmagorical story of an alcoholic man and his search for his dead palm-wine tapster. As he travels through the land of the dead, he encounters a host of supernatural and often terrifying beings - among them the complete gentleman who returns his body parts to their owners and the insatiable hungry-creature. Mixing Yoruba folktales with what T. S. Eliot described as a 'creepy crawly imagination', "The Palm-Wine Drinkard" is regarded as the seminal work of African literature.