| J--, Black Bam and the Masqueraders Contributor(s): St Omer, Garth (Author) |
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ISBN: 1845232437 ISBN-13: 9781845232436 Publisher: Peepal Tree Press OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Caribbean Modern Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.3" W x 8" (0.35 lbs) 136 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the final installment in a quartet of novels that explores the lives of the small St Lucian middle class in the years around independence. Peter, after years abroad, has resumed his marriage with his long abandoned wife Phyllis, and is now working as a lecturer in Jamaica. His brother Paul remains in St Lucia, disgraced and sacked from professional employment by his refusal to marry his pregnant girlfriend. He has acquired a reputation for madness, though whether this is a contrived mask or an actual breakdown is left uncertain. J--, Black Bam and the Masqueraders intercuts Paul's confessional letters to Peter with the narrative of Peter's marital relationship with Phyllis, his affairs and descent into despair, drunkenness and domestic violence. St Omer offers a bracingly bleak portrayal of a middle class beset with hypocrisies over race, sexism and class privilege. |