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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Black Faces, White Faces loosely links together ten short stories, all taking place in Jamaica; all involving vacationing Brits completely out of their comfort zones. What is special about Black Faces is that Gardam interlocks details as well as characters. For example, a character in one story leaves behind a toy. Another character from another story, finds it. "Babe Jude" - encountering crude vacationers & a language barrier. "Missus Moon" - foreigners witnessing a funeral. "Best Day of My Easter Holidays" - a boy's essay about meeting crazy man Jolly Jackson. "The Pool Boy" - Lady Fletcher doesn't want to be so prim and proper. "The Weeping Child" - Mrs. Ingram tells the story of the ghost of someone who is still alive. The House Above Newcastle" -Newlyweds Boofey and Pussy are unrecognizable to each other on their honeymoon. "Saul Alone" - a sad story about a stroke victim observing the people around him. "The First Declension" - a wife suspects her husband of having an affair while he visits Jamaica. "Something To tell the Girls" - two teachers on holiday in the mountains of Jamaica. "Monique" - a woman mourning the loss of her lover. Black Faces, White Faces by Jane Gardam was a winner of the David Higham prize for Fiction, and the Royal Society of Literature’s Winifred Holtby prize following its publication in 1982. Its ten stories are loosely connected by their setting, a beach hotel in Jamaica. A ghost story, a most remarkable honeymoon story, an amazing account of two very old ladies on a spree, and one of a child (very much like Max in “Where the Wild Things Are”) are four of the ten wonderfully readable tales. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Still, there are a lot more white faces here than black. But the title is earned by the white people's reactions to the locals, and how piercingly Gardam dissects the colonial and race themes. The Brits are used to veneering over awkwardness and they do so here to hilarious effect; the locals innocently injecting culpability into already-fragile relationships. ( )