Polished Hoe: A Novel

    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Clarke,Austin (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2002
    WorldCat URL:
    http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/9766371008
    Published:
    Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    ISBN:
    9766371008
    Subject Term:
    Caribbean area, Fiction, Women, Plantation life, Plantation owners, Mistresses, and Women murderers
    Notes:
    462 p., On a Caribbean island in the 1950s, elderly Mary Gertrude Mathilda commits murder. As she explains herself to police, her story exposes the ugly underbelly of life on Caribbean plantations, with its slavery and brutality.

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