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1 online resource (1 volume) |
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Cover -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Editor's Note -- 1. Serial not Cereal -- 2. The Bomb Threat -- Part 1 -- 3. The Bomb Threat -- Part 2 -- 4. Michelangelo and the Statue of David -- 5. The Dirty Snowball and White Raincoat -- 6. Mighty Mouse and the Conceited Cowboy -- 7. Emperor Jones and the African Drums -- 8. Nobbie's Birthday -- 9. The Teacher Who Feared Rats -- 10. Androcles and the Lion -- 11. The Club Starts a Newspaper -- 12. Bruno and Leo Have a Fight -- 13. Bad Boo-boo-loo Messes Up the Time -- 14. The Ghost at the Window -- 15. Police Proclamation -- 16. The Remarkable Greeks -- Part 1 -- 17. The Remarkable Greeks -- Part 2 -- 18. Delphi and Herodotus Discussion -- 19. Roundheads and Cavaliers -- 20. Bad Boo-boo-loo Rides in a Horse Race -- 21. The Liverpool Cathedral -- 22. Children in the Resistance -- 23. Ghana Independence -- 24. Sir Lancelot and the Tack -- 25. Apollo -- 26. The Fossil Fight -- 27. Bad Boo-boo-loo and the Shark Fight -- 28. The Shark Fight -- Second Installment -- 29. Ulysses -- A Great Hero -- 30. Mighty Mouse and the Sinking Ship -- 31. Moby Dick Fights a Strange Eagle -- 32. The Monster in the Park -- 33. The Babysitter -- 34. Bruno the Bulldog Has Heart Pain -- 35. Bruno the Bulldog Has Heart Pain -- Continued -- 36. David and Goliath. |
| Summary |
After more than a decade in the United States, the Caribbean writer C.L.R. James ran afoul of McCarthyism in 1953 and was deported. In exile in London, he began to write stories in the form of letters to his four-year-old son "Nobbie," who remained in the States. Through a distinctive, imaginary, and sometimes absurd cast of characters--Good Boongko, Bad boo-boo-loo, Moby Dick, and Nicholas the worker, among others--these stories explore questions of friendship, conflict, community, ethics, and power in humorous and often ingenious ways; they also stand as a moving testament to a father's struggle to be a vivid presence in the life of his son despite separation and distance. |
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Print version record. |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901-1989 -- Correspondence.
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James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901-1989.
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James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901-1989. (OCoLC)fst00009600
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Authors, Trinidadian -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
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Children's stories, Trinidadian and Tobagonian.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Authors, Trinidadian. (OCoLC)fst00822402
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Children's stories, Trinidadian and Tobagonian. (OCoLC)fst00856811
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999
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| Genre/Form |
Records and correspondence. (OCoLC)fst01423917
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| Added Author |
Webb, Constance.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: James, C.L.R. (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901- Nobbie stories for children and adults. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2006 080322608X (DLC) 2005026398 (OCoLC)61513072 |
| ISBN |
0803256329 (electronic bk.) |
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9780803256323 (electronic bk.) |
| Sudoc No. |
U5002 T145 -2006 nbdocs |
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