A Swarthy Boy Elizabeth Reeder

A Swarthy Boy Elizabeth ReederEdgar Mittelholzers autobiography, first published in 1963, which covers the first eighteen years of his life, was his first return in writing to about his native Guyana, of memory and imagination, for a good many years. Born into a household that regarded itself as European, Mittelholzer writes with vivid feeling about what it was like to be a boy whose swarthiness was anathema to his bigoted father. In the process, Mittelholzer gives an account of

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