Product Description
FIRST EDITION.
Half title.
Orig.
orange cloth.
Red, yellow, & black pictorial d.
w, clipped; a little rubbed at edges.
Inscribed by the author on leading f.
e.
p.
, 'To Tony with Best Wishes "one must penetrate subterfuge to allow merit to reveal itself" Lenrie Peters, 3/6/65'.
An excellent presentation copy.
Zell, Bundy, & Coulon, p.
127.
Dustjacket by Charles Keeping.
Lenrie Wilfred Leopold Peters, 1932-2009, was a Sierra-Leonean-Gambian surgeon, poet, and activist.
The Second Round is his only novel and is a semi-autobiographical work, in which Peters deploys Jungian archetypes to great effect.
Written largely in Europe, it concerns a doctor who returns from England to post-independence Freetown only to become alienated when he realises that both he, the country he left, and his family are dramatically changed.
Charles Larson praised it as 'the most impressive title Heinemann has added to its African Writers series in a long time'.
However his calling it 'the first African horror story, the first African Gothic novel' was hotly contested: it is certainly true that the novel becomes increasingly nightmarish as it goes on, but Larson was criticised for not taking the novel on its own terms and praising its 'universalism'.
The inscription is stirring, to say the least.
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