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- catalog abstract ""First published by Anansi in 1972, and set in an early twentieth-century Hindu community in the Easter Caribbean, No Pain Like This Body describes the perilous existence of a poor rice-growing family during the August rainy season. Their struggles to cope with illness, a drunken and unpredictable father, and the violence of the elements end in unbearable loss. Through vivid, vertiginous prose, and with brilliant economy and originality, Ladoo creates a fearful world of violation and grief, in the face of which even the most despairing efforts to endure stand out as acts of raw courage."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b12806458.
- catalog coverage "Caribbean Area Fiction.".
- catalog coverage "East Indians Trinidad and Tobago Fiction.".
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""First published by Anansi in 1972, and set in an early twentieth-century Hindu community in the Easter Caribbean, No Pain Like This Body describes the perilous existence of a poor rice-growing family during the August rainy season. Their struggles to cope with illness, a drunken and unpredictable father, and the violence of the elements end in unbearable loss. Through vivid, vertiginous prose, and with brilliant economy and originality, Ladoo creates a fearful world of violation and grief, in the face of which even the most despairing efforts to endure stand out as acts of raw courage."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 129 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0887846890 :".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Toronto : House of Anansi Press,".
- catalog spatial "Caribbean Area Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "East Indians Trinidad and Tobago Fiction.".
- catalog subject "C813/.54 21".
- catalog subject "PR9199.3.L277 N6 2003".
- catalog subject "Poor Fiction.".
- catalog title "No pain like this body : a novel / Harold Sonny Ladoo ; introduction by Dionne Brand.".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "text".