Colin Channer (286 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Kingston is a place of fascinating beauty and startling poverty. Located on one of the biggest (and greyest) harbours in the world and ringed by low green hills, this city of over a million likes to get its ganja from the farm to the table. It was founded by the survivors of a quake that sunk a pirate town. What should you expect? The ghettos of Kingston gave us ska, reggae, hip hop, dancehall, and Rastafarianism. With over 500 murders a year for the last 20 years, the city's nickname of Killsome' is well earned. Kingston was the inspiration for Marley's Concrete Jungle.'.…

Hardback. Condition: Fair. Carey is a playwright, whose life undergoes a dramatic change when he meets Frances, a former singer and member of a mystical African tribe. A one night stand quickly binds them not only by love and attraction, but by history. To Carey, Frances is the woman he saw on TV five years before, on the day he tried to kill himself. To Frances, Carey is a mythical figure from her tribe's past, one that carries deep significance for her present. Led by her to Africa on a journey of adventure and self discovery, Carey finally finds a way to satisfy his soul.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Carey is a playwright, whose life undergoes a dramatic change when he meets Frances, a former singer and member of a mystical African tribe. A one night stand quickly binds them not only by love and attraction, but by history. To Carey, Frances is the woman he saw on TV five years before, on the day he tried to kill himself. To Frances, Carey is a mythical figure from her tribe's past, one that carries deep significance for her present. Led by her to Africa on a journey of adventure and self discovery, Carey finally finds a way to satisfy his soul.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Carey is a playwright, whose life undergoes a dramatic change when he meets Frances, a former singer and member of a mystical African tribe. A one night stand quickly binds them not only by love and attraction, but by history. To Carey, Frances is the woman he saw on TV five years before, on the day he tried to kill himself. To Frances, Carey is a mythical figure from her tribe's past, one that carries deep significance for her present. Led by her to Africa on a journey of adventure and self discovery, Carey finally finds a way to satisfy his soul.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Now in paperback, a sensual examination of the nature and love and the healing power of myth, by the acclaimed author of Waiting in Vein. Playwright Carey's life undergoes a dramatic change when he meets Frances, a singer and member of a mystical African tribe. To Carey, Frances is the woman he saw on TV five years before, on the day he tried to kill himself. To Frances, Carey is a mythical figure from her tribe's past, one that carries deep significance for her present. Led by her on a journey of adventure and self-discovery, Carey finally finds a way to satisfy his soul. …

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Best-selling writer Colin Channer's debut poetry collection tackles the unlikely literary figure of the Jamaican policeman. "The Caribbean policeman is a character both foreign and familiar at the center of this intimate debut poetry collection. Combining Jamaican patois and American English, it tells the story of violence, loss, and recovery in the wake of colonialism." --O, the Oprah Magazine, One of 19 Books to Pick Up This October "Extremely worthwhile . . . Channer brings an Olive Senior like narrativity to these sharp character sketches, and by deploying his keen novelist's eye he can trace the actions and effects of power on these men and their families in interesting and compelling language." --Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Channer's debut poetry collection achieves an intimate and lyric meditation on family, policing, loss, and violence, but the work is enlivened by humor, tenderness, and the rich possibilities that come from honest reflection. Combined with a capacity to offer physical landscapes with painterly sensitivity and care, a graceful mining of the nuances of Jamaican patwa and American English, and a judicious use of metaphor and similie, Providential is a work of "heartical" insight and vulnerability. Not since Claude McKay's Constab Ballads of 1912 has a writer attempted to tackle the unlikely literary figure of the Jamaican policeman. Now, over a century later, Channer draws on his own knowledge of Jamaican culture, on his complex relationship with his father (a Jamaican policeman), and frames these poems within the constantly humane principles of Rasta and reggae. The poems within Providential manage to turn the intricate relationships between a man and his father, a man and his mother, and man and his country, and a man and his children into something akin to grace.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Kingston is a place of fascinating beauty and startling poverty. Located on one of the biggest (and greyest) harbours in the world and ringed by low green hills, this city of over a million likes to get its ganja from the farm to the table. It was founded by the survivors of a quake that sunk a pirate town. What should you expect? The ghettos of Kingston gave us ska, reggae, hip hop, dancehall, and Rastafarianism. With over 500 murders a year for the last 20 years, the city's nickname of Killsome' is well earned. Kingston was the inspiration for Marley's Concrete Jungle.'.…

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Condition: Fair. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: first ] Publisher: One World/Ballantine Pub Date: 6/23/1998 Binding: Hardcover Pages: 346 first edition.