Easy in the Islands (Contemporary American Fiction) - Softcover

Shacochis, Bob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140083014 ISBN 13: 9780140083019

Publisher: Penguin Books / Crown, 1986

Synopsis

Stories of the Caribbean describe a calypso singer, a hotel owner fighting island bureaucracy, two poor natives who chance upon an all-white party, and an American student learning about island life

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

"[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."

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books / Crown
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0140083014
• ISBN 13: 9780140083019
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 213