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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Foster, Cecil, 1954-     Subjects     Migrant agricultural laborers -- Fiction.     Foreign workers, Barbadian -- Fiction.     Farms -- Ontario -- Fiction.     Barbadians -- Ontario -- Fiction.     Ontario -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Foster, Cecil, 1954-       by title:      Slammin' tar : a nov...       by call number:      FICTION FOS     Search the Web     Foster, Cecil, 1954-     Migrant agricultural laborers -- Fiction.     Foreign workers, Barbadian -- Fiction.     Farms -- Ontario -- Fiction.     Barbadians -- Ontario -- Fiction.     Ontario -- Fiction.       MARC Display

Slammin' tar : a novel / Cecil Foster. by Foster, Cecil, 1954- Random House of Canada, 1998. Call #: FICTION FOS Subjects Migrant agricultural laborers -- Fiction.   Foreign workers, Barbadian -- Fiction.   Farms -- Ontario -- Fiction.   Barbadians -- Ontario -- Fiction.   Ontario -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780679308799 0679308792 Summary:  In his novel "Slammin' Tar", Cecil Foster, himself a migrant from his native Barbados to the fertile snow cover of Canada, unearths the raw deal migrant workers harvest both at home and abroad. In "Slammin' Tar" his message is succinctly slammed home by Brer Anancy, a.k.a. 'Nancy--a chaffing, resilient, defiant narrating madman who has been cursed by Mother Nyame, the possessor of all stories, to tell the tale of humble Barbadian exiles at work for 10 months a year on the lowly Edgecliff farm, near Toronto. Genre:  Canadian fiction. Black fiction. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Black Fiction FICTION FOS Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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