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Part autobiographical observation, part fictional narrative, In the Castle of My Skin follows the author's life in Barbados from his ninth year to his nineteenth, from a birthday marked with floods, to leaving school and home for Trinidad. The evolving consciousness of the boy is recorded with exceptional precision and sensitivity. It is a personal record, from a deliberate and carefully defended "castle."In the story of a boy growing up on a small Caribbean island we find the story of the "undeveloped third world" - natural, primitive, unencumbered - becoming entangled with the materialism and anxiety of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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"Two worlds collide in this lyrical autobiographical novel that evokes the coming-of-age of a Barbadian boy in his dying primitive culture where the price of 'progress' is pain and alienation." ... Read more