Lost pages reveal an alternate ending to a classic Caribbean novel

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Discovery from UChicago’s Kaneesha Parsard sheds new light on “Minty Alley” by political theorist C.L.R. James

C.L.R. James—historian, Marxist theorist, cricket commentator and one of the twentieth century’s most prolific writers—wrote only one novel in his lifetime: Minty Alley, published in 1936. Set in a Trinidadian yard, a form of communal housing, the book follows Haynes, a middle-class man navigating life among working-class neighbors. 

Almost 90 years later, University of Chicago Asst. Prof. Kaneesha Parsard encountered a set of five new pages of Minty Alley—typed and annotated in James’s hand—that reimagine the novel’s ending. 

https://news.uchicago.edu/story/lost-pages-reveal-alternate-ending-classic-caribbean-novel

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1. Interesting find and contemplation.