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Torn between despair over 'the rancid taste of life on the island' and attachment to the 'irresistible, green island days', the characters in these short stories inhabit a Caribbean they find it impossible to live in, yet impossible to live without. They dream of being inviolable and whole, but live in situations which are frequently on the edge of disorder and personal threat. Yet there is nothing wearily pessimistic about the tone of this collection. Williams's stories, like his characters, are intensely alive. Their individual voices button-hole us and won't let us go. Their tales are sad, but what passion they have in their pursuit of meaning!

"In Williams' brilliant final story... the urge to find release and return is given mystical and memorable expression..."
Liberation

N.D. Williams is Guyanese and lives in New York. In 1976 his novel Ikael Torass won the prestigious Casa de las Americas prize.

The Crying of Rainbirds

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Torn between despair over 'the rancid taste of life on the island' and attachment to the 'irresistible, green island days',... Read more

    Publisher: Peepal Tree Press Ltd
    Publication Date: 01/07/1991
    ISBN13: 9780948833403, 978-0948833403
    ISBN10: 0948833408

    Number of Pages: 148

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

    Description

    Torn between despair over 'the rancid taste of life on the island' and attachment to the 'irresistible, green island days', the characters in these short stories inhabit a Caribbean they find it impossible to live in, yet impossible to live without. They dream of being inviolable and whole, but live in situations which are frequently on the edge of disorder and personal threat. Yet there is nothing wearily pessimistic about the tone of this collection. Williams's stories, like his characters, are intensely alive. Their individual voices button-hole us and won't let us go. Their tales are sad, but what passion they have in their pursuit of meaning!

    "In Williams' brilliant final story... the urge to find release and return is given mystical and memorable expression..."
    Liberation

    N.D. Williams is Guyanese and lives in New York. In 1976 his novel Ikael Torass won the prestigious Casa de las Americas prize.

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