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Orlando Patterson's Latest Book

Newest Release

  • Bibliography:
    2 Books
  • First Book:
    January 2012
  • Latest Book:
    December 2012
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Book List in Order: 2 titles



  • Dinah is a prostitute who lives with a Rastafarian fisherman on the Dungle, the rubbish heap where the very poorist squat. She refuses to accept his passivity and patriarchal attitudes and leaves him. But she is no more satisfied by the secure life s...



  • Originally published in 1967, An Absence of Ruins is a poignant portrayal of a man shaped by the colonial education of the Caribbean intellectual class. Orlando Patterson offers a devastating critique of middle-class intellectualism through the self-...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Orlando Patterson has published 2 books.

Orlando Patterson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, An Absence of Ruins, was published in December 2012.

The first book by Orlando Patterson, The Children of Sisyphus, was published in January 2012.

No. Orlando Patterson does not write books in series.