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Some Great Thing

Paperback • 1992 • English

Some Great Thing

By Lawrence Hill

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About the book

Disillusioned and apathetic after four years of college, fledgling reporter Mahatma Grafton returns to his hometown to begin work at a local newspaper. The eccentric commitment of an unlikely welfare crusader, an exchange student from Cameroon and a French language rights activist begins to consume him. When a peaceful demonstration escalates into a full-scale riot and police cover-up, Mahatma discovers the principles that have always eluded him. Intelligent and comic, Some Great Thing exposes t...Show more

Fiction: general and literary

Book details

ISBN

9780888011671

Published year

1992

Language

English

Original title

Some Great Thing

Format

Paperback

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