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A brief conversion and other stories / Earl Lovelace.

LIBRA PR9272.9.L6 B7 2003 copy 2
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Lovelace, Earl, 1935-
Contributor:
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Trinidadian and Tobagonian fiction.
Trinidad and Tobago.
Genre:
Fiction.
Short stories.
Penn Provenance:
Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
Physical Description:
150 pages ; 20 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Persea Books, [2003]
Summary:
In thirteen vivid stories, award-winning author Earl Lovelace paints a compassionate, often humorous portrait of everyday life in Trinidad. Ordinary people like Victor the barber, Shoemaker Arnold, Miss Ross (once the most sought-after woman in Cunaripo), and Blues and Joebell (both eager to see new lands) are invested with the magic of their colorful, changing world. Written with Lovelace's characteristic ear for melody and rhythm, A Brief Conversion and Other Stories is an invaluable contribution to contemporary world literature.
Contents:
A Brief Conversion
The Fire Eater's Journey
The Coward
The Fire Eater's Return
Call Me 'Miss Ross' For Now
Those Heavy Cakes
George and the Bicycle Pump
Fleurs
The Midnight Robber
Joebell and America
Shoemaker Arnold
Victoria and the Blight
The Gambler's Funeral.
Notes:
"A Karen & Michael Braziller book."
Originally published: Oxford : Heinemann, 1988.
ISBN:
0892552719 :
9780892552719
OCLC:
52079926

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