Suspended Sentences by Mark Mcwatt

Suspended Sentences by Mark Mcwatt

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When a group of graduating students is caught vandalizing an Guyanese club, their punishment is to write a short story about newly independent Guyana. This book includes these stories, which work like Chaucerian tales to reveal their teller as well as to chart the history and future of Guyanese fiction.

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Suspended Sentences by Mark Mcwatt

When a group of graduating students is caught vandalizing an Guyanese club, their punishment is to write a short story about newly independent Guyana. This book includes these stories, which work like Chaucerian tales to reveal their teller as well as to chart the history and future of Guyanese fiction.

Mark McWatti is the author of two poetry collections, Interiors and The Language of Eldorado, as well as a collection of short stories, Suspended Sentences: Fictions of Atonement, which won first place in the Commonwealth Award in 2006. In addition, he is a coeditor of the Oxford Book of Caribbean Poetry.

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ISBN 13 9781845230012
ISBN 10 1845230019
Title Suspended Sentences
Author Mark Mcwatt
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd
Year published 2005-04-17
Number of pages 250
Prizes Winner of Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book 2006
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.