Black Faces, White Faces

Informationen zum Autor Jane Gardam is the only writer to have been twice awarded the Whitbread/Costa Prize for Best Novel of the Year, for The Queen of the Tambourine and The Hollow Land . She also holds a Heywood Hill Literary Prize for a lifetime's contribution to the enjoyment of literature. She is the author of five volumes of acclaimed stories: Black Faces, White Faces (David Higham Prize and the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize); The Pangs of Love (Katherine Mansfield Prize); Going into a Dark House (Silver Pen Award from PEN); Missing the Midnight ; and The People on Privilege Hill . Her novels include God on the Rocks , which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Faith Fox ; The Flight of the Maidens ; the bestselling Old Filth , which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2005; The Man in the Wooden Hat ; and Last Friends . Jane Gardam was born in Yorkshire. She now lives in east Kent. Zusammenfassung A loosely connected sequence of stories! offering vignettes of human foibles from the holiday island of Jamaica. Mrs Filling sees something nasty in the midday sun; an English lawyer dallies while his wife goes mad in England; sexuality flares and everywhere farce and racial tension lurk.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Gardam
• Publisher: Abacus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.06.1990
• EAN: 9780349114071
• ISBN: 978-0-349-11407-1
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 6 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / City Life, Short Stories, Family life fiction, Contemporary lifestyle fiction