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View from Mount Diablo
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A crime-novel in verse, View from Mount Diablo explores the transformation of Jamaica from a sleepy colonial society to a post-colonial nation where political corruption, drug wars, and avenging authorities have made life hell. The resentments class and racial privilege provoke underscore both the turmoil in society and the relationships at the heart of the narrative, between Adam Cole, a dreamy white boy driven by personal tragedy to crusading journalism, squint-eyed Nellie Simpson, once a servant, then a political enforcer, and stuttering Nathan, gardener and groom turned cocaine baron. Beyond this trio is a dazzling array of real and fictitious characters including Bustamante, coke-trade middleman Tony Blake, the informer Blaka, who finds religion, a corrupt plantation owner, and a murderous police officer.
This annotated edition, edited by John Lennard, offers a full introduction situating Thompson s verse-novel in its formal, Caribbean, and global contexts, and provides detailed notes explicating background history, real events transposed into fiction, and the skilled foreshortening that maps an individual life onto a national calamity.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
260
Release Date:
2009-07-30
Publication Date:
2009-07-30
Publisher:
Peepal Tree Press Ltd
Languages:
Published:
English,
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1845231449
Weight:
260 g
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