Sic Transit Wagon & Other Stories by Barbara Jenkins

Sic Transit Wagon & Other Stories by Barbara Jenkins

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Sic Transit Wagon & Other Stories by Barbara Jenkins

The stories in this collection move from the all-seeing naivete of a child narrator trying to make sense of the world of adults, through the consciousness of the child-become-mother, to the mature perceptions of the older woman taking stock of her life. Set over a timespan from colonial-era Trinidad to the hazards and alarms of its postcolonial present, these stories have, at their core, the experience of uncomfortable change, but seen with a developing sense of its constancy as part of life, and the need for acceptance. The stories deal with the vulnerabilities and shames of a childhood of poverty; the pain of being let down; glimpses of the secret lives of adults; betrayals in love; the temptations of possessiveness; conflicts between the desire for belonging and independence; and the devastation of loss through illness, dementia, and death. What brings each of these not uncommon situations to fresh and vivid life is the quality of the writing: the shape of the stories, the unerring capturing of the rhythms of the voice and a way of seeing that includes a saving sense of humor and the absurd and also delights in the characters that people these stories.
Barbara Jenkins was born in Trinidad. She began writing in her seventies, and is the author of a novel and a collection of short stories. She has won awards including the Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Caribbean Region), the Wasafiri New Writing Prize, The Canute Brodhurst Prize, the Small Axe short story competition, My African Diaspora Short Story Contest and a Guyana Prize.
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ISBN 13 9781845232146
ISBN 10 1845232143
Titel Sic Transit Wagon & Other Stories
Autor Barbara Jenkins
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Peepal Tree Press Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr 2013-07-15
Seitenanzahl 180
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