Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
[New York, New York] : Penguin Books, [2020]
DESCRIPTION
li, 165 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780143134220, 0143134221 :, 0143134221, 9780143134220
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Buried in the archive for almost ninety years, Claude McKay's Romance in Marseille traces the adventures of a rowdy troupe of dockworkers, prostitutes, and political organizers--collectively straight and queer, disabled and able-bodied, African, European, Caribbean, and American. Set largely in the culture-blending Vieux Port of Marseille at the height of the Jazz Age, the novel takes flight along with Lafala, an acutely disabled but abruptly wealthy West African sailor"--