Island in the Sun: A Story of the 1950's Set in the West

Alec Waugh

ISBN 10: 9997409124 / ISBN 13: 9789997409126

Edité par Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1955

Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. N° de réf. du vendeur G9997409124I3N01

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Présentation de l'éditeur: To the casual visitor Santa Marta is a sub-tropical paradise, a small sister of Jamaica, Bermuda and Nassau, unmentioned in the colour-splashed brochures of travel agents: an island where the sun shines throughout the year on the sandy beaches of innumerable coves, on the cane-fields and coconut plantations, on the shingled hits of the peasant villages and the fine houses of the white planters handed down through generation after generation, from the Sugar Barons of a past century. But this was not how the newspaper columnist, Bradshaw, saw it when he arrived on his first trip to the Caribbean. Bradshaw found Santa Marta a smouldering volcano.

This novel is a brilliantly successful evocation of the atmosphere and the problems of life on a West Indian island. It is a dramatic story, packed with incident and thrilling in this mounting tension. It weaves into the fortunes of a small group of islanders the ambitions and jealousies, the hopes and fears, the complexes and inhibitions of a people to whom the tint of the skin is more important than wealth, or power, or skill, whose tangled history has bequeathed a heritage of passion in an island where the blood never cools.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Island in the Sun: A Story of the 1950's Set...
Éditeur : Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)
Date d'édition : 1955
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Good
Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket