View from Mount Diablo
Published on 28. February 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
84 pages
978-1-900715-81-2 (ISBN)
Description
This novel in verse won the 2001 Jamaican National Literary Award. In carefully crafted rhyming quatrains, the poem tells of both individual and national tragedies as it explores the transformation of Jamaica from a sleepy rural society to a postcolonial urban one on the brink of collapse. It is a prophetic work of exasperated love and the abandonment of old romantic ideals for the harsh glare of reality.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Yorkshire
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
77 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-900715-81-2 (9781900715812)
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Person
Ralph Thompson was born in America but has lived most of his life in Jamaica. His poetry has appeared in such journals as The Gleaner, Jamaica Journal, Kyk-over-Al, Carib, The Caribbean Writer, and London Magazine. His books include The Denting of a Wave and Moving On.