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Banjo

by Claude McKay

A band of beachcombers join together to live as vagrants in Marseilles.

Themes: Fiction · Drama

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Heaving like a sailor along the Marseilles breakwater, banjo in hand, Banjo is about to face an empty stomach when four black boys drop through a boxcar's bottom—and suddenly a meal, a conversation, a makeshift community appears.

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