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Riot / Andrew Salkey.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Caribbean modern classics / Children | Caribbean modern classicsPublication details: Leeds : Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2011.Description: 172 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781845231811
  • 1845231813
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 23 F Ja Sal
Summary: "For Gerald Manston and his friends 'Shifty Shanks' and 'Fu Manchu' cycling round Kingston is the biggest excitement in their lives until the 'upheaval' when many of the city's working people go on strike and take to the streets. Gerald's father is an organiser in the new union fighting for a better life, but even he would be alarmed - if he found out - by how close Gearld and his friends get to the action ..."--Back cover.
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Books Books OCLC Data Rare Books Floor F Ja Sal (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0000000013452
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Originally published by Oxford University Press, 1967.

"The other titles in this celebrated quartet are Hurricane (1964), Earthquake (1965) and Drought (1966)"--Back cover.

Includes glossary.

"For Gerald Manston and his friends 'Shifty Shanks' and 'Fu Manchu' cycling round Kingston is the biggest excitement in their lives until the 'upheaval' when many of the city's working people go on strike and take to the streets. Gerald's father is an organiser in the new union fighting for a better life, but even he would be alarmed - if he found out - by how close Gearld and his friends get to the action ..."--Back cover.

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