A Harlot's Progress

by David Dabydeen

Book Overview

A HARLOT'S PROGRESS reinvents William Hogarth's famous painting of 1732 which tells the story of a whore, a Jewish merchant, a magistrate and a quack doctor bound together by sexual and financial greed. Dabydeen's novel endows Hogarth's characters with alternative potential lives, redeeming them for their cliched status as predators or victims. The protagonist - in Hogarth, a black slave boy, in Dabydeen, London's oldest black inhabitant - is forced...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099288729
• ISBN13: 9780099288725
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.