The Wine of Astonishment (Caribbean Writers Series) - Softcover

Lovelace, Earl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0435988808 ISBN 13: 9780435988807

Publisher: Heinemann, 1986

Synopsis

A powerful and moving chronicle of the different ways in which members of a small Trinidadian community, Bonasse, hold on to their identity as they find themselves caught up in change and corruption. Bolo is a champion stick fighter, tall, good looking, and the fastest, strongest, and bravest of al the young men in Bonasse. When time and time again he sees his people humiliated by American troops, his instincts as a leader prevail. But the stand he makes takes on bizarre and tragic forms. Introduction by Marjorie Thorpe.

About this title

About the Author:

Earl Lovelace was born in Toco, Trinidad in 1935, and spent his childhood in Tobago and Port of Spain. His first job was as a proof reader with the Trinidad Publishing Company, and he later joined the Civil Service, serving first in the Forestry Department and then in the Department of Agriculture.His first novel, While Gods Are Falling, won him the BP Independence Literary Award which enabled him to study in the United States as visiting novelist at Howard University, Washington. It was followed by The Schoolmaster, a novel which drew on his experiences of rural Trinidad. The promise evident in these novels of the sixties was fulfilled in The Dragon Can't Dance, and The Wine of Astonishment which, West Africa magazine argued, 'put him in the front rank of Caribbean writers'. It was followed by a collection of plays, Festina's Calypso, which was published in 1984.

Review:

“This is an energetic, very unusual, above all, enlightening novel; the author's best yet.”–The Financial Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Heinemann
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0435988808
• ISBN 13: 9780435988807
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160