London: Fontana Paperbacks / Flamingo, April 1985. Trade Paperback. First Thus (no additional printings listed). Fine. Pages tanned, otherwise As New. Appears unread. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Corners sharp. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 254 pages.

Kwaku comes from a long line of literary buffoons who manage to triumph over the intelligent people around them. The language Mr. Heath employs to describe this process is luxurious and densely baroque in places, sweetly comic in others. The hero's clowning conceals an essential wisdom and goodness. In the end, he is unable to become as hardened and corrupt as the people he tries so desperately to emulate, and in this lies his greatest success.

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Bookseller: Books of the World (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: RWARE0000000634
Title: Kwaku, Or, the Man Who Could Not Keep His Mouth Shut
Author: Roy Heath
Format/Binding: Trade Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0006540988
ISBN 13: 9780006540984
Publisher: Fontana Paperbacks / Flaming
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: April 1985
Pages: 254
Size: 8vo
Keywords: fiction, literature, humor, satire, fools, holy fools, romans, nouvelles, psychological, corruption, poverty, prejudice, superstition, Kwaku, Guyana
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction; Humor, Comedy, Satire, Funny stuff; Caribbean; Guyana;

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