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Palace of the Peacock
Wilson Harris · 1988 · 152 pages
A tale of a doomed crew beating their way up-river through the jungles of Guyana. In this novel, first published in 1960, can be traced the poetic vision, the themes and the designs of Harris's subsequent work, which included The Guyana Quartet.
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Sarah Churchwell
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