When Me Was a Boy - Softcover

Hyatt, Charles W.

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ISBN 10: 9766402027 ISBN 13: 9789766402020

Verlag: University of the West Indies Press, 2007

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"This tidy little book... offers an insight into social life in Jamaica over fifty years ago. It is written in Jamaican creole, Hyatt style. It is a boy's vision recaptured several years later and written with good humour. It can only be a fragment of Jamaican social history since it addresses the experiences of one man, his family and associates. It would be a major service to social historians if more Jamaicans do what Charles Hyatt has done." - Patrick Bryan, University of the West Indies, Jamaica"

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What was it like to be a small boy growing up in Kingston, Jamaica in the 1930s? "When Me Was a Boy" tells exactly what it was like. Charles Hyatt remembers his boyhood in vivid detail, and in his own inimitable voice talked about it in his radio programme "When Me Was a Boy". In this selection from those pieces, Hyatt brings his school days to life: the tramcar and horse-and-buggy days when cars were few and far between and taking a walk was a social occasion. These are hilarious moments - look out for the "Black Heart Man" - and historic ones, and Hyatt's sharp observation and remarkable memory put us right on the spot sharing his feelings and experiences.

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• Verlag: University of the West Indies Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 9766402027
• ISBN 13: 9789766402020
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 158