No telephone to heaven

Author: Michelle Cliff
ISBN: 9780679739425

A brilliant Jamaican-American writer takes on the themes of colonialism, race, myth, and political awakening through the experiences of a light-skinned woman named Clare Savage. The story is one of discovery as Clare moves through a variety of settings ndash; Jamaica, England, America ndash; and encounters people who affect her search for place and self. The structure of No Telephone to Heaven combines naturalism and lyricism, and traverses space and time, dream and reality, myth and history, reflecting the fragmentation of the protagonist, who nonetheless seeks wholeness and connection. In this deply poetic novel there exist several levels: the world Clare encounters, and a world of which she only gradually becomes aware ndash; a world of extreme poverty, the real Jamaica, not the Jamaica of the middle class, not the Jamaica of the tourist. And Jamaica ndash; almost a character in the book ndash; is described in terms of extraordinary beauty, coexisting with deep human tragedy. The vi

Publisher: Vintage Books
Publish Date: 1989

Subjects: Fiction / General, Fiction / Literary

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