Bibliographic Details

Title: BLACK MAN OF SHADWELL: Four Stories.

Publisher: London: Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative, (1976.)

Publication Date: 1976

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: GOOD

Edition: 1st Edition

HC 1st ed - First printing. Rather uncommon collection of stories which move 'through history and across continents to explore the problems of race, class and human contact.' Two of these stories are set in the Caribbean, where Searle worked for a time (in Grenada, the native country of his wife). Searle himself, a poet, teacher, jazz critic and activist has had an interesting history: he was fired from his first teaching job, because of the poetry he encouraged his students to write (poems which often reflected the dark side of their lives in housing projects and poverty), and in addition to his poems, he has published a children's book, a novel and a book on teaching English which won the Martin Luther King award . Illustrated with drawings by Mel Robinson.