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Life Turns Man up and Down High Life, Useful Advice, and Mad English: African Market Literature

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ISBN-10: 0679450211

ISBN-13: 9780679450214

Edition: 2001

Authors: Kurt Thometz

List price: $26.95
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A unique anthology that brings together examples of once wildly popular but long out-of-print African market literature never intended as art: irresistibly charming, brief literary anomalies in all genres, written for entertainment, instruction, and moral guidance. An indigenous Nigerian publishing phenomenon that was all the rage from World War II until the late 1960s, Onitsha Market literature consisted of pamphlets that contained stories, novels, plays, discourses on the dangers of loose living, and advice on matters ranging from selecting a wife to managing your money. They carried titles such as Lack of Money Is Not Lack of Sense, Drunkards Believe Bar As Heaven, No Condition Is…    
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Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/4/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 5.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Kurt Thometz is a private librarian. He has been profiled in "The Wall Street Journal", "The New York Times", "GQ", & "Avenue". For many years a bookseller at the Madison Avenue Bookshop in New York City, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Preface
Warning
High Life, Useful Advice, and Mad English
Rosemary and the Taxi Driver
Man Has No Rest in His Life
Beware and Be Wise
No Condition Is Permanent
Money Hard To Get But Easy To Spend
Lack of Money Is Not Lack of Sense
Miss Comfort's Heart Cries for Tonny's Love
Drunkards Believe Bar As Heaven
Beware of Harlots and Many Friends
How to Avoid Corner Corner Love and Win Good Love from Girls
Why Harlots Hate Married Men and Love Bachelors
Mabel the Sweet Honey That Poured Away
How to Write Famous Love Letters, Love Stories, and Make Friend with Girls
Saturday Night Disappointment
Adventures of the Four Stars
The Statements of Hitler Before the World War
The Life Story and Death of John Kennedy
What Is Life?
Afterword
A Reader's Guide