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Pink icing and other stories / Pamela Mordecai.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mordecai, Pamela.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories.
- Jamaica--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Jamaica.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (242 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : Insomniac Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Telling stories of ordinary lives with extraordinary skill, Pamela Mordecai draws delicately detailed portraits of life in Jamaica and other islands, with occasional trips to Canada. Her characters speak with the cadences of the Caribbean, and cope with the universal experiences of birth and death, joy and betrayal.
- Contents:
- Chalk it up
- The burning tree and the balloon man
- Pink icing
- Hartstone High
- Alvin's ilk
- Corinthians thirteen thirteen
- Crucial concern
- Blood
- Limber like me
- The game
- Shining waters
- Once on the shores of the stream, Senegambia.
- Notes:
- Pages 242-243, blank.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-91033-X
- 9786610910335
- 1-4593-0884-0
- 1-897414-23-4
- OCLC:
- 437182742
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