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Author Lovelace, Earl, 1935- author.

Title The dragon can't dance : a novel / Earl Lovelace.

Imprint New York : Persea Books, 1998.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  F LOVELACE, E. c.3  Storage
Edition First U.S. edition.
Description 240 pages ; 21 cm
Note "Originally published in England by André Deutsch Ltd., London, in 1979"--Title page verso.
Summary In Trinidad the martial arts dancer, Aldrick Prospect, fights the commercialization of the Mardi Gras carnival. Sick to see the country's traditions destroyed-- warrior contests have been replaced by games for tourists-- he joins a coup d'etat, serves a stint in jail and never dances again.
Contents Queen of the Band -- The Princess -- The Dragon -- The Bad John -- The Spectator -- A Call to the Dragon -- Norman 'Tex' at the Carnival Fete -- To Be Dragon and Man -- Ash Wednesday -- Friends and Family -- The New Yard -- Outcasts -- The Dragon Dance -- Prison Dance -- The Dragon Can't Dance -- The Shopkeeper -- The Calypsonian.
Subject Trinidad and Tobago. (OCoLC)fst01211577
Trinidad and Tobago -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Novels.
Subject Trinidadian and Tobagonian fiction.
Carnival -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Port of Spain -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742
Subject Trinidad and Tobago -- Port of Spain. (OCoLC)fst01309987
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Subject Trinidadian and Tobagonian fiction. (OCoLC)fst01156765
Genre/Form Bildungsromans.
Subject Carnival. (OCoLC)fst00847651
Poor -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Port of Spain -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Bildungsromans. (OCoLC)fst01726536
Subject Poor. (OCoLC)fst01071040
Genre/Form Bildungsromans.
Local Subject Poor people -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Port of Spain -- Fiction.
ISBN 0892552344 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780892552344 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780892552726 (paperback)
0892552727 (paperback)
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