{"product_id":"a-swarthy-boy-edgar-mittelholzer-9781845233556","title":"A Swarthy Boy: A Childhood in British Guiana","description":"Edgar Mittelholzer offers a beautifully written account of his distinctly eccentric Anglo-Germanic family so enmeshed in their sense of colonial Englishness that they experienced Guyana as an alien and hostile environment; of the Victorian domestic life of their part of the town of New Amsterdam; and the rigid race and class hierarchies that kept British Guiana hidebound and immobile under a snobbish and uncreative elite, and his own saving through the power of literature and his desire to be a writer. With an introduction by Jeremy Poynting and an afterword by Jacqueline Pointer, who was Edgar Mittelholzer's wife at the time he wrote A Swarthy Boy, this edition also includes two autobiographical essays by Mittelholzer and an extract from his travelogue, With a Carib Eye (1958) which offers a rather different view of New Amsterdam.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edgar Mittelholzer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1845233557\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781845233556\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peepal Tree Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/26\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Edgar Mittelholzer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46431566299391,"sku":"9781845233556","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a1c2da6c-1447-4433-9ac3-b8552a356126.jpg?v=1735141721","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-swarthy-boy-edgar-mittelholzer-9781845233556","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}