The Humming-Bird Tree (Macmillan Caribbean Writers)

McDonald, Ian

ISBN 10: 1405024682 / ISBN 13: 9781405024686

Published by Macmillan Caribbean, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Humming-Bird Tree (Macmillan Caribbean Writers)
• Publisher: Macmillan Caribbean
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405024682
• ISBN 13: 9781405024686
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Used; Very Good

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Synopsis

Alan was too young to understand why his parents preferred him to play with the other white boys on the estate. But gradually, he learned that if he was going to meet Kaiser and Jaillin, he had to pretend he was going to meet someone else, he had to pretend he didn't enjoy spending time with his friends, he had to pretend he didn't mind when he wasn't allowed to invite them to his party. Sometimes, horribly, the pretending became real, and Alan found himself in betrayal of the friendship that meant so much to him.

About the Author

Ian McDonald was born in Trinidad and was educated at Queen's Royal College, Port of Spain, and Cambridge University, where he earned his BA Honours degree in History, and later his MA. TT junior tennis champion for many years, he played at Wimbledon, captained for Cambridge, and was Guyana's 1957 Sportsman of the Year. In 1955 he joined British Guiana's Booker Group and made his career in the sugar industry until retiring as Director of Marketing and Administration for GuySuCo in 1999. In 2000 he became CEO of the Sugar Association of the Caribbean. His poems and short stories have been widely published and anthologised, and his play The Tramping Man has been frequently staged. His award-winning The Humming-Bird Tree was first published in 1969, and in 1992 was made into a BBC film shot in Trinidad.