Description |
1 online resource (293 pages) |
Series |
Modern African writing |
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Modern African writing.
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Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Zoning -- We Are Here Because We Are Here -- The Red Door -- Commission -- The Gorilla's Apprentice -- The Unconverted -- World Pawa -- Treadmill Love -- Shiko -- Motherless -- The Cape Cod Bicycle War -- Acknowledgements -- About the author |
Summary |
Each of the realistic worlds Billy Kahora brings us in the short stories and novella that make up The Cape Cod Bicycle War and Other Stories explores the tensions and transitions of characters moving between youthful folly and a precarious adulthood. In the title story, immigrant workers with varying ambitions work at a Wendy's in wintry Cape Cod. Sharing one house, they must also share, or rather compete for, bicycles--crucial transportation--which are in short supply |
Notes |
Print version record |
SUBJECT |
Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Fiction
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Subject |
Massachusetts -- Cape Cod
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Genre/Form |
Fiction
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780821440964 |
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0821440969 |
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