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David Dabydeen is the author of Coolie Odyssey, The Counting House, A Harlot's Progress, Hogarth's Blacks, The Intended, Slave Song, and Turner.
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"Dabydeen is a poet as well as a novelist, and his language transcends the discordant unwholesomeness of the England he describes. Such startling imagery gives Disappearance a perky beauty softening its stark message." —The Sunday Times
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0099288885
- ISBN 13 9780099288886
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages180
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