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Overview"""A truly excellent novel. . . . The morbidly fascinating little twists of human existence are all here: love, sex, life and death, beauty and horror--the works."" -- Chicago Sun-Times In The Book of Jamaica, Russell Banks explores the complexities of political life in the Caribbean and its ever-present racial conflicts. His narrator, a thirty-five-year-old college professor from New Hampshire, goes to Jamaica to write a novel and soon becomes embroiled in the struggles between whites and Blacks. He is especially interested in an ancient tribe called the Maroons, descendants of the Ashanti, who had been enslaved by the Spanish and then fought the British in a hundred-year war. Despite this history of oppression, the Maroons have managed to maintain a relatively autonomous existence in Jamaica. Partly out of guilt and an intellectual sense of social responsibility, Banks's narrator gets involved in reuniting two clans who have been feuding for generations. Unfortunately, his attempt ends in disaster, and the narrator must deal with his feelings of alienation, isolation, and failure." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Russell BanksPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc Imprint: HarperCollins Dimensions: Width: 13.40cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.286kg ISBN: 9780060977078ISBN 10: 0060977078 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 27 March 1996 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsA compelling novel....Banks achieves effects at once beautiful and brutal. A virtuoso performance. --Publishers Weekly A compelling novel. . . . Banks achieves effects at once beautiful and brutal. A virtuoso performance. -- Publishers Weekly A truly excellent novel. . . . The morbidly fascinating little twists of human existence are all here: love, sex, life and death, beauty and horror--the works. -- Chicago Sun-Times Impeccable and serious. . . knowledgeable and refined. -- Booklist Author InformationRussell Banks, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, was one of America's most prestigious fiction writers, a past president of the International Parliament of Writers, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into twenty languages and he received numerous prizes and awards, including the Common Wealth Award for Literature. He died in January 2023 at the age of eighty-two. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |