Title The book of color : a novel / Julia Blackburn.

Publication Info.	New York : Pantheon Books, [1995]
	©1995

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Location	Call No.	Status
East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department	F BLACKBURN	Check Shelf

Edition	1st American ed.
Description	175 pages ; 22 cm
Summary	A Christian missionary arrives on an Indian Ocean island to convert the natives and the local witch doctor replies with a curse. The novel traces the effect of the curse. The missionary marries a native woman and his descendants, who return to England, are cursed with a colored skin in a white man's world.
Subject	Islands of the Indian Ocean -- Fiction.
	Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
	Missionaries -- Fiction.
	Prejudices -- Fiction.
	Mauritius -- Fiction.
	England -- Fiction.
	Clergy -- Fiction.
	Clergy. (OCoLC)fst00864014
	Fathers and sons. (OCoLC)fst00921899
	Missionaries. (OCoLC)fst01023720
	Prejudices. (OCoLC)fst01075260
	England. (OCoLC)fst01219920
	Indian Ocean -- Islands of the Indian Ocean. (OCoLC)fst01244200
	Mauritius. (OCoLC)fst01205325
Genre/Form	Domestic fiction.
	Historical fiction.
	Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726589
	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	Domestic fiction.
Other Form:	Online version: Blackburn, Julia. Book of color. 1st American ed. New York : Pantheon Books, ©1995 (OCoLC)761131067
ISBN	0679439838
	9780679439837

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