The Great Yacht Race - Brossura

Anthony C. Winkler

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1405068825 ISBN 13: 9781405068826

Casa editrice: Macmillan Caribbean, 2006

Riassunto

Murders, scandals and the pursuit of forbidden pleasures may help to while the time away, but for Montego Bay's elite in the 1950s nothing is as important as the annual yacht race. Winkler interweaves the lives of five Montegonians: Fitzpatrick the barrister, Angwin the magistrate, O'Hara the hotelier, Biddle the reporter - all of whom will eventually compete in the race - and Father Huck, the American priest who ministers over them and tried his best to understand them, while battling with his own conflicts. In so doing, Winkler provides us with an affectionately satirical, hilarious view of a paranoid, hypocritical and eccentric colonialist society, during the twilight of its influence.

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Recensione:

"Winkler manages to combine mockery with benevolence, accuracy with absurdity and the hard facts of life with a shot of magical humour... this is the work of a master storyteller." --Susan Knight, Caribbean Review of Books

L'autore:

Anthony C. Winkler was born in Jamaica, and was educated in Jamaica and America. His first novel, The Painted Canoe, was published in Jamaica in 1984. The Lunatic followed in 1987, and Winkler also wrote the screenplay for a highly successful film of this novel. Other works include The Great Yacht Race (1992), Going Home to Teach (1995) and The Duppy (1997). In 1999 his original screenplay The Annihilation of Fish, was filmed in Los Angeles. Starring opposite James Earl Jones with Margot Kidder, Lynn Redgrave won Palm Beach Best Actress for her role as Poinsettia. He resides with his wife, Cathy, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

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• Editore: Macmillan Caribbean
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1405068825
• ISBN 13: 9781405068826
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 432