{"product_id":"a-swarthy-boy-a-childhood-in-british-guiana-9781845233556","title":"A Swarthy Boy: A Childhood in British Guiana","description":"Edgar Mittelholzer offers a beautifully written account of his distinctly eccentric Anglo-Germanic family so enmeshed in their sense of colonial Englishness that they experienced Guyana as an alien and hostile environment; of the Victorian domestic life of their part of the town of New Amsterdam; and the rigid race and class hierarchies that kept British Guiana hidebound and immobile under a snobbish and uncreative elite, and his own saving through the power of literature and his desire to be a writer. With an introduction by Jeremy Poynting and an afterword by Jacqueline Pointer, who was Edgar Mittelholzer's wife at the time he wrote A Swarthy Boy, this edition also includes two autobiographical essays by Mittelholzer and an extract from his travelogue, With a Carib Eye (1958) which offers a rather different view of New Amsterdam.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdgar Mittelholzer was born in British Guiana in 1909. He wrote more than twenty novels. He eventually settled in England, where he lived until his death in 1965, a suicide predicted in several of his novels.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Peepal Tree Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51199441305874,"sku":"9781845233556","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5f802654-6be1-4449-8f3e-c0be13199c22.jpg?v=1744877057","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-swarthy-boy-a-childhood-in-british-guiana-9781845233556","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}