On Leaving Paradise
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Author:
Frank Hercules
Year: 1980
Jacket design and illustration: Fred Marcellino
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Edition: First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780151699216
Comments:
Set in Trinidad, the novel brutally satirizes the island's racial caste system and the entire social hierarchy the British had put in place prior to independence in the 1960s. For the first edition jacket, Fred presented a witty interpretation of the main character’s Exodus.