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FIRST HARPER PERENNIAL EDITION 1996.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Banks, Russell, 1940-

The book of Jamaica / Russell Banks.—1st Perennial ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 0-06-097707-8

1. Americans—Travel—Jamaica—Fiction. 2. Jamaica—Race relations—Fiction. 3. Maroons—Jamaica—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3552.A49B6 1996

813'.54

95-53321

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