Slipstream: A Daughter Remembers - Softcover

Rachel Manley

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9781554700516: Slipstream: A Daughter Remembers

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ISBN 10: 1554700515 ISBN 13: 9781554700516

Publisher: Key Porter Books, 2009

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In the wake of her father's death, Rachel Manley turned inward to try to understand him and to explore the impact of those final moments. Her father, the charismatic, controversial prime minister of Jamaica, had stood at the heart of a decade of radical social reform in the 1970s. From her father's bedside during his last six months of life, Manley searches the shadows that he cast on her as a child and as a woman. She shares her love and pain, and explores how the enduring bonds that held them were tested time and again, not only by the ordinary conflicts of family life, but by the heavy demands of the political arena. Slipstream is a shining portrait of one man's enormous heart and undying spirit.

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“One of those rare books that remind you why we read and write in the first place.” – The Globe and Mail

“ Slipstream takes its readers to Jamaica. It is a book infused with Manley’s rich, warm voice, that speaks the dialect of family, those words with secret meanings that only a few fold understand.” – Edmonton Journal

“ Slipstream is an utterly beautiful book. The combination of exquisite language and raw emotion moved me deeply.” –Anita Rau Badami

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From the vantage point of her father's bedside during the last months of his life, Rachel Manley searches the shadows that Michael Manley, charismatic, controversial prime minister of Jamaica, cast on her life as a child and later as a woman. A shining portrait of one man's enormous heart and undying spirit.

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