| Description |
230 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note(S) |
Subtitle from cover. |
| Contents |
Prologue: the Dragon's mouth (Bocas del Dragon) -- Endangered Species -- White envelope -- The Ides of March -- Home -- Loosed -- Six months -- Santimanitay -- Epilogue: Kings of the Earth. |
| Summary |
Coconut trees. Carnival. Rum and coke. To many outsiders, these idyllic images represent the so-called easy life in Caribbean nations such as Trinidad and Tobago. However, the reality is far different for those who live there--a society where poverty and patriarchy savagely rule, and where love and revenge often go hand in hand. Written in a combination of English and Trinidad Creole, Pleasantview reveals the dark side of the Caribbean dream. In this novel-in-stories about a fictional town in Trinidad, we meet a political candidate who sets out to slaughter endangered turtles for fun, while his rival candidate beats his "outside woman" so badly she ends up losing their baby. On the night of a political rally, the abused woman exacts a very public revenge, the trajectory of which echoes through Pleasantview, ending with one boy introducing another boy to a gun and to an ideology. -- modified back cover. |
| Subject(S) |
Abused women -- Fiction.
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Political candidates -- Fiction.
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Authors, Trinidadian.
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Trinidadian and Tobagonian literature.
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Trinidad -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
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Fiction.
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| Added Name(S) |
Manley, Rachel, writer of foreword.
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| Added Title |
Pleasant view |
| ISBN |
9781632462022 (paperback) |
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1632462028 (paperback) |
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