- Published: 15 May 2000
- ISBN: 9780099288725
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 288
- RRP: $22.99
A Harlot's Progress
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- Published: 15 May 2000
- ISBN: 9780099288725
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 288
- RRP: $22.99
David Dabydeen's new novel takes as its starting point Hogarth's painting of 1732...and sets out to release the people it represents - prostitute, merchant, quack doctor and slave boy - from easy moralism, both the artist's and our own... Dabydeen has an imaginative mastery of the period, and can render it a hundred ways
Observer
Exhilarating...Beguiling and provocative
The Times
The best of the younger generation of Caribbean novelists
Penelope Lively
His strong vision… suggests that, for the recreation of lost meaning, it is necessary to strike off the fetters of narrative, and be released into poetry.
Hilary Mantel, The Independent