Anthony Winkler Collection: Going Home to Teach by Anthony Winkler

Anthony Winkler Collection: Going Home to Teach by Anthony Winkler

This autobiographical account of the year Winkler spent at a rural teacher training college flashes back to the Jamaica of the narrator's childhood, recounting incidents and vignettes that shed light on the muddle of competing personalities, doctrines and images of self, currently vying for centre stage in the tumult of Jamaican life. Emerging form the story are the hilariously drawn characters, contrasts between the Jamaican and the American outlook, and the lessons about the perils of superimposing a foreign ideology onto a native culture.

"In Going Home to Teach Winkler's strength as a writer lies in the vividness of his descriptions, the power of his imagery, and the range of his vocabulary..." Elaine Reynolds, The Sunday Observer"

Anthony C. Winkler was born in Jamaica, and was educated in Jamaica and America. His first novel, The Painted Canoe , was published in Jamaica in 1984. The Lunatic followed in 1987, and Winkler also wrote the screenplay for a highly successful film of this novel. Other works include The Great Yacht Race (1992), Going Home to Teach (1995) and The Duppy (1997). In 1999 his original screenplay The Annihilation of Fish , was filmed in Los Angeles. Starring opposite James Earl Jones with Margot Kidder, Lynn Redgrave won Palm Beach Best Actress for her role as Poinsettia. He resides with his wife, Cathy, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

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ISBN 13	9781405068833
ISBN 10	1405068833
Title	Anthony Winkler Collection: Going Home to Teach
Author	Anthony Winkler
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Macmillan Education
Year published	2006-07-31
Number of pages	328
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