Gone to Drift by Diana Mccaulay
Gone to Drift is an award-winning coming-of-age adventure story set in Jamaica. Life gets even tougher for Lloyd, a boy from a fishing village, when his grandfather goes missing at sea. When he sets out to find him he has few friends and makes new enemies.
Diana McCaulay is an award-winning Jamaican writer and a lifelong resident of its capital city Kingston. She has written two acclaimed novels, Dog-Heart (2010) and Huracan (2012). Dog-Heart won a Gold Medal in the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission's National Creative Writing Awards (2008), was shortlisted for the Guyana Prize (2011), the IMPAC Dublin Award (2012) and the Saroyan Prize for International Writing (2012). Huracan was also shortlisted for the 2014 Saroyan Prize.Gone to Drift, which was placed second in the 2015 Burt Prize for Caribbean Literature, is McCaulay's first Young Adult novel. It is built on McCaulay's 2012 Regional Commonwealth prize-winning short story, The Dolphin Catchers. Founder and long-time CEO of the Jamaica Environment Trust, McCaulay entices her readers with the spirit and complexity of contemporary Jamaica.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780993108617 |
| ISBN 10 | 099310861X |
| Title | Gone to Drift |
| Author | Diana Mccaulay |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Papillote Press |
| Year published | 2016-02-28 |
| Number of pages | 210 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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