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Author:
McKay, Claude, 1890-1948.
Title:
Banjo : a story without a plot / by Claude McKay.
Publisher:
HarcourtBrace, Jovanovich,
Copyright Date:
©1957
Description:
viii, 326 pages ; 21 cm
Subject:
Black people--France--Fiction.
Stevedores--Fiction.
Drifters--Fiction.
Marseille (France)--Fiction.
Noirs--France--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Débardeurs--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Vagabonds--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Black people.
Drifters.
Stevedores.
France.
France--Marseille.
Psychological fiction.
Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Notes:
"A Harvest/HBJ book."
Summary:
"Lincoln Agrippa Daily, known to his drifter cohorts on the 1920s Marseilles waterfront as "Banjo," passes his days panhandling and dreaming of starting his own little band. At night Banjo, Malty, Ginger, Dengel, Bugsy, Taloufa, Goosey, and even Jake of Home to Harlem prowl the rough waterfront bistros, drinking, looking for women, playing music, fighting, loving, and talking about their homes in Senegal, the West Indies, or the American South."--Page 4 of cover
Series:
A Harvest book
ISBN:
9780156106757
0156106752
OCLC:
(OCoLC)14764925
Locations:
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

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