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    Palm-Wine Drinkard

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    ISBN: 9780571311538
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    AuthorTutuola, Amos
    Pub Date03/07/2014
    BindingPaperback
    Pages144
    Publisher: FABER AND FABER LTD
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    Eliot described as a 'creepy crawly imagination', The Palm-Wine Drinkard is regarded as the seminal work of African literature. 'Brief, thronged, grisly and bewitching.' Dylan Thomas, Observer 'Tutuola's art conceals - or rather clothes - his purpose, as all good art must do.' Chinua Achebe

    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.

    'Brief, thronged, grisly and bewitching.' Dylan Thomas, Observer

    'Tutuola's art conceals - or rather clothes - his purpose, as all good art must do.' Chinua Achebe