Stick No Bills

Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw

ISBN 10: 1845234677 / ISBN 13: 9781845234676

Published by Peepal Tree Press Ltd, GB, 2020

About this Item

Writing both of imagined characters and as "I", Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw's stories deal with the experiences of loss, disappointment and the attempt to be self-truthful. In the sequence of stories that chart childhood family memory and the break-up of those connections through deaths and the passage of time, there is a fine balance between recording the feelings of desolation and the pleasures of reconstructing the joys of the past through art and memory. There is, too, in the collection as a whole, a richly consoling passage towards a sense of continuance and human resilience,

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stick No Bills
• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press Ltd, GB
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845234677
• ISBN 13: 9781845234676
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 147 grams

About this title

Synopsis

In the opening story, sharply observed details of a walk through a St Lucian coastal town to an ageing uncle’s house, chance encounters that trigger memories, a cell-phone call from home in Trinidad, the way an incident—like refusing a lift on the way to the house—becomes part of the enlivening narrative of the day, all cover with the myriad details of pulsing life what is really a story about mourning the death of the character’s mother. In this, and a sequence of stories that chart the playful delights of childhood family holidays with uncles, aunts, and cousins and the break-up of those connections through deaths and the passage of time, there is a fine balance between recording the feelings of desolation and the pleasures of reconstructing the joys of the past through art and memory. The collection, through its careful organisation of individual stories into an artfully constructed whole, offers a richly consoling passage through griefs of various kinds towards a sense of continuance and human resilience.

About the Author

Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw was born in Trinidad, and is Professor of French Literature and Creative Writing at the University of the West Indies. She has coedited several academic works and has published two collections of short stories: Stick No Bills and Four Taxis Facing North. Her novel, Mrs. B was short listed for the “Best Book Fiction” in The Guyana Prize for Literature Award.