Mister Johnson
by Joyce Cary
published
1961
(first published 1939)
by Berkley Medallion Books
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Mass Market Paperback
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Read in March, 2008
This is a difficult book to describe - at times I enjoyed it, but I frequently became depressed by it. Originally published in 1939, the language is dated, and would be considered offensive now, but it pefectly highlights how Africans and their white bosses spoke to one another, and how each was viewed by the other. Johnson, an irrepressible character, who it's is hard not to like instantly, is set on a collision course with disaster. Johnson is quite childlike, in his eternal optimism and his r...more
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