| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (18hr., 50 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Maple leaf audio.
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| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Narrated by Robin Miles. |
| Summary |
Winner of both the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, The Polished Hoe is acclaimed author Austin Clarke's masterpiece. On a Caribbean island in the 1950s, elderly Mary Gertrude Mathilda commits murder. As she explains herself to police, her story exposes the ugly underbelly of life on Caribbean plantations, with its slavery and brutality. ". brilliantly written dialogue, a rich, dancing patois that fills out the dimensions of the island's painful history and its complex caste system."-Publishers Weekly |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Women -- West Indies -- Fiction.
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Plantation owners -- Fiction.
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Women murderers -- Fiction.
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Plantation life -- Fiction.
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West Indies -- Fiction.
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Mistresses -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Miles, Robin. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781456111199 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1456111191 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13534955 |
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