Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Highly praised first novel by this Barbados born author - Paule Marshall describes him as having 'taken life in a hardscrabble little West Indian village and, through the power o fhis vision and his lean poetic prose, made it speak for the oppressed the world over.' INSCRIBED on the title page with 'Peace, blessings, Agymah", and dated 4/30/99. ISBN: 1-56689-0497.