No Telephone to Heaven
A Contemporary, Literature, Fiction book. I was fortunate I knew her here." She heard her voice, clipped, distantsuddenlyas if she were describing a third-form...
A brilliant Jamaican-American writer takes on the themes of colonialism, race, myth, and political awakening through the experiences of a light-skinned woman named Clare Savage. The story is one of discovery as Clare moves through a variety of settings—Jamaica, England, America—and encounters people who affect her search for place and self.The structure of No Telephone to Heaven combines naturalism and lyricism, and traverses space and time, dream and...
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- Pages: 211 pages
- ISBN: 9780452275690 / 452275695
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I was fortunate I knew her here." She heard her voice, clipped, distantsuddenlyas if she were describing a third-form teacher who had taught her Linnaean classification. No, she said to herself. I was blessed to have her here. Her passion of place. Her sense of the people. Here is her; leave it at that. Michelle Cliff, No Telephone to Heaven //
One of those authors you've never heard of but who utterly captures the essence of their homeland. In this case, the turbulent politics and revolutions of Jamaica, as well as the equally turbulent and dangerous line of being half white half black in 50's America. The fears of post colonial Jamaica are captured lyrically, bravely, and... Took me forever to read this book. I just couldn't get into, and the only reason I tried to stick with it was because I had to write my final in World Literature on one of the books, and my professor gave raving reviews of this book.I like all of the ideas and 'lessons' in the book, about getting back to who we are, finding ourselves... Michelle Cliff is an excellent writer who has written far too few books. Although she has spent most of her life in the USA & was raised primarily in New York, this book is located in her native Jamaica. It's a roiling, rollicking cynical jaunt through the island nation, with a series of outrageous characters along for the ride. This...
