Suspended Sentences Fictions of Atonement

by McWatt, Mark

• ISBN13: 9781845230012
• ISBN10: 1845230019
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-02-01
• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press Ltd.

Summary

When a group of graduating students is caught vandalizing an exclusive Guyanese club, their punishment is to write a short story about the newly independent Guyana. Years later, as a tribute to the life of one of the former classmates now feared dead, the author has collected the rest of the stories written by his classmates. The group of stories works like Chaucerian tales to slowly reveal their teller as well as to chart the history and future of Guyanese fiction.

Author Biography

Mark McWatt is the author of Interiors and The Language of Eldorado, which won the Guyana Prize. He is the head of the English department at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill campus, Barbados.

Table of Contents

Uncle Umberto's slippers	p. 19
Two boys named Basil	p. 34
Sky	p. 51
Afternoon without tears	p. 70
Alma Fordyce and the bakoo	p. 86
The visitor	p. 116
Still life : Bougainvilla and body parts	p. 140
A lovesong for Miss Lillian	p. 165
The bats of love	p. 188
The tyranny of influence	p. 216
The celebration	p. 227
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