Easy in the Islands - Softcover
Winner of the National Book Award for first fiction, Easy in the Islands is a collection of stories by one of America's foremost contemporary fiction writers. Infused with the rhythms and the beat of the Caribbean, these vivid tales of paradise sought and paradise lost are as lush, steamy, and invigorating as the islands themselves. From fishing fleets in remote atolls too small to appear on any map and reggae bars on islands narrow enough to walk across in an hour, to the sprawling barrios and yacht-filled marinas of Miami, Bob Shacochis charts a course across a Caribbean that no one who has ever been there on vacation will recognize.
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A contributing editor for Outside and Harper’s, Bob Shacochis has been a GQ columnist and writer for numerous other national publications. He is also the author of the novel, Swimming in the Volcano, a work of literary reportage about Haiti, The Immaculate Invasion, a second collection of stories, The Next New World, and a collection of essays on food and love, Domesticity. He lives in Florida and New Mexico.
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"[Shacochis's] stories have an unselfconscious narrative momentum--a linear drive toward an ending--that I associate with the easy ways of an old master...I think this boy's been writing since he was a baby."
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 033029105X
- ISBN 13 9780330291057
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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Book Description Softcover (Illustrated). Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Colour illustrated paperback binding with blue and brown coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the back strip. Nine short stories in and around the Caribbean Islands. Quoting from the rear panel " . a humid and beguiling web of intrigue, weird humour, poverty and extravagance." A little creasing of the book corners with loving of the book edges and panels. Tanning of the text block edges and pages. A few foxing spots to the end pages. First British Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [8], 9 - 191, [1] pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Short Stories; Caribbean Islands; ISBN: 033029105X. ISBN/EAN: 9780330291057. Inventory No: 0130862. Seller Inventory # 0130862
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