In this new collection of stories Williams again breaks the rules and stretches the limits of short fiction. Two stories are as long as novellas; others are ¿short¿ but densely mystifying. The title story returns to a Caribbean past that has almost faded, but modern themes ¿ lesbian love, sexuality, individual consciousness, memory, arriving in America, loneliness in hybrid cities ¿ are explored with sharp-eyed, inventive prose. His characters cross borders into places that on the surface resemble Jamaica or New York but could be anywhere.
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Another Stunning Collection of Williams Stories,
By Milton Drepaul "Milton Drepaul-AlphaMax Academy" (Toronto, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Colonial Cream (Paperback)
N.D. Williams has quietly chronicled the emtional storms of an era in the past in what was seen as a backwater of the empire--the Caribbean as well as contempoary themes like the restlessnes of today's people as they travel back and forth between simple and complex societesWilliams is not afraid to explore different ways of writing. Readers are also struck by his forceful but precise prose.His characters bring wry smiles as they muse or sometimes utter incongruous comments. I particularly enjoyed " Trinculo Walks The Dog" which recreates a colonial city on the verge of independence.Going back to that time/space four decades ago I see how the Colonial power was cleverly subverted through illicit sexual encounters. Two mysterious stories are " My planet of Ras" and "the Searchers" Williams has a gift for opening layers of feeling and engaging the reader at an intuitive level. I guess the test for any writer is whether someone will pick up his book and read the stories again. I've gone back to these stories at least three times. Each time I expect to be surprised.
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