| Description |
1 online resource (421 pages) |
| Contents |
Skin Folk. Title Page ; Riding The Red ; Money Thee ; Something To Hitch Meat To ; Snake ; Under Glass ; The Glass Bottle Trick ; Slow Cold Chick ; Fisherman ; Tan-Tan And Dry Bone ; Greedy Choke Puppy ; A Habit Of Waste ; And The Lillies-Them A-Blow ; Whose Upward Flight I Love ; Ganger (Ball Lightning) ; Precious ; Acknowledgments -- The Salt Roads. Title Page ; Beat ..., ; Paris, 1842 ; Break/ ; Beat! ; One- ; Drop ; Blues ; Paris, 1842 ; Sister ; Soul ; Throwing ; Paris, 1842 ; Word ; Slide ; Rattle ; Chain ; Break ; Water ; Alexandria, Egypt, 345 C.E. ; Propping ; Paris, Spring 1844 ; Sorrow ; Blood ; Paris, 1842 ; Paris, September 1844 ; Sing ; Rip ; Paris, June 30, 1845 ; Paris, August 1848 ; Tide ; Ebb ; Beat ; Break/ ; 1859, Paris Maison Municipale De Santé ; Rattle ; Alexandria, Egypt, 345 C.E. ; Neuilly, France ; Drink ; Saw ; Jizz ; Alexandria, Egypt, 345 C.E ; Jazz ; Rock ; Saint Domingue ; Down ; See ; Blow ; Hole ; Riff |
| Summary |
Experience the rich imagination and the genre-defying writing of the award-winning author with this special volume, which includes both her epic novel spanning time and place, and her first collection of short fiction. When an Afro-Caribbean goddess of sexual desire and love is manifested on a nineteenth-century Caribbean island, she explores her newfound powers by traveling through time and space, inhabiting a midwife, a mixed-race Parisian dancer, and an enslaved prostitute in ancient Alexandria |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 22, 2021) |
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Mary, of Egypt, Saint -- Fiction
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Duval, Jeanne -- Fiction
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Duval, Jeanne. fast (OCoLC)fst00376185 |
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Mary, of Egypt, Saint. fast (OCoLC)fst00018096 |
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Science fiction, Canadian.
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Life on other planets -- Fiction
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Women -- Caribbean Area -- Fiction
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Spirit possession -- Fiction
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Time travel -- Fiction
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Prostitutes -- Fiction
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Goddesses -- Fiction
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Fantasy fiction.
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Emigration and immigration.
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Fantasy fiction.
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Goddesses.
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Life on other planets.
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Prostitutes.
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Science fiction, Canadian.
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Spirit possession.
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Time travel.
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Women.
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West Indies -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction
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Caribbean Area -- Fiction
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France -- Fiction
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Egypt -- Fiction
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Caribbean Area.
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Egypt.
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France.
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West Indies.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Fiction.
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Romans.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1504066510 |
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9781504066518 |
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