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Publication
Amistad (2012), Edition: Original, 272 pages
Description
This collection of short fiction, inviting readers into a world where people are in turn uplifted and undone by love, includes "The Helpweight," in which an accomplished woman must bear the burden of an old flame's renewed affections when he returns from a life abroad with his Irish bride in tow.
Media reviews
Halfway through Lorna Goodison’s stunning collection By Love Possessed, I realized I was holding my breath. This was partly because of the uniqueness of the subject matter: Jamaicans of various classes and castes, from country and town, passionately in and out of love; and it was partly because
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of the uniqueness of style: a cool, faintly decorous prose, incorporating a witty, intelligent, idiosyncratic Jamaican language.
As a rule, Jamaican patois, broadly deployed, amusingly distances us from the characters. But Goodison’s alchemy of standard and Jamaican English locates us deep within the consciousness of her people. Show Less
Awards
Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award (Longlist — 2012)
Globe and Mail Top 100 Book (2011)
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
272 p.; 5.31 inches
ISBN
0062127357 / 9780062127358