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Jan 1, 1980 · 3.56. 319 ratings23 reviews. "A truly excellent novel. . . . The morbidly fascinating little twists of human existence are all love, sex, life and death, beauty and horror—the works." — Chicago Sun-Times In The Book of Jamaica , Russell Banks explores the complexities of political life in the Caribbean and its ever-present racial conflicts.
Mar 27, 1996 · The Book of Jamaica. Paperback – March 27, 1996. by Russell Banks (Author) 4.1 29 ratings. See all formats and editions. "A truly excellent novel. . . . The morbidly fascinating little twists of human existence are all here: love, sex, life and death, beauty and horror—the works." — Chicago Sun-Times.
The Book of Jamaica. "A truly excellent novel. . . . The morbidly fascinating little twists of human existence are all here: love, sex, life and death, beauty and horror--the works." -- Chicago Sun-Times. In The Book of Jamaica, Russell Banks explores the complexities of political life in the Caribbean and its ever-present racial conflicts.
Books. The Book of Jamaica. Russell Banks. Houghton Mifflin, 1980 - Fiction - 326 pages. "Banks, as you can tell from his title, seems to want this to be the book about Jamaica. He lets his unnamed New Hampshire writer-narrator miss nothing about the island: the obeah voodoo, the styles and economic determinants of reggae, Errol Flynn's shadowy ...
ix, 326 pages ; 22 cm "Banks, as you can tell from his title, seems to want this to be the book about Jamaica. He lets his unnamed New Hampshire writer-narrator miss nothing about the island: the obeah voodoo, the styles and economic determinants of reggae, Errol Flynn's shadowy part in the island's history, the ganga fields, the Rastafarians, and, most interesting of all (to us and the ...
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An experimental novel, The Relation of My Imprisonment (1984), set in 17th-century New England, was regarded by most reviewers as conceptually and stylistically flawed. Banks’s interest in the Caribbean, which led to his residence in Jamaica for an interval, shaped two of his novels, The Book of Jamaica (1980) and Continental Drift (1985 ...
