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  Texaco (Paperback) By (author) Patrick Chamoiseau, By (author) Rose-Myriam R ejouis, By (author) Val Vinokurov

  

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  Short Description for TexacoWinner of France's Prix Goncourt, this funny, passionate, and in exhaustively inventive novel is nothing less than a mythic history of the author's native Martinique and its Creole language and culture. "(Chamoiseau's) prose (is) Rabelaisian: erudite, vulgar, stupendously energetic . . . driven by an African beat".--"The New York Times Book Review".
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  • Publisher: Vintage Books
  • Published: 01 May 1999
  • Format: Paperback 401 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780679751755 ISBN 10: 0679751750
  • Sales rank: 367,475

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• Patrick Chamoiseau produces a mythic history of the Creole nation that arose from the forced marriage of French and African peoples in his native Martinique. The chief spokeswoman for that nation is the indomitable and profanely wise Marie-Sophie Laborieux, the founder of Texaco, a teeming shantytown poised on the edge of a city that constantly threatens to engulf it. Now Marie-Sophie is Texaco's protectress as well. For only she can dissuade an urban planner from ordering her anarchic quarter razed to the ground. Like Scheherazade before her, she relies on stories - stories of slaves and sorcerers, thugs and courtesans, uprisings and eruptions.