By love possessed : stories /
Goodison, Lorna.
By love possessed : stories / Lorna Goodison. - 1st U.S. ed. - New York : Amistad, 2011. - 262 pages ; 21 cm
The helpweight -- Jamaica hope -- Henry -- Bella makes life -- By love possessed -- Don't sit on the beauty seat -- God's help -- House colour -- Wedding in Roxbury -- The big shot -- Pinky's fall -- The Dolly funeral -- Fool-fool Rose is leaving labour-in-vain-Savannah -- Angelita and the golden days -- Shilling -- Talola's husband -- Alice and the dancing angel -- For my comrades wearing three-piece suits -- Dream lover -- Miss Henny, Suliman Santer, and me -- Mi amiga gran -- I come through.
This collection of short fiction, inviting readers into a world where people are in turn uplifted and undone by love, includes "The Helpweight," in which an accomplished woman must bear the burden of an old flame's renewed affections when he returns from a life abroad with his Irish bride in tow.
9780062127358 0062127357
Short stories.
Short stories.
Short stories.
Short stories.
Short stories.
Short stories.
F Ja Goo
By love possessed : stories / Lorna Goodison. - 1st U.S. ed. - New York : Amistad, 2011. - 262 pages ; 21 cm
The helpweight -- Jamaica hope -- Henry -- Bella makes life -- By love possessed -- Don't sit on the beauty seat -- God's help -- House colour -- Wedding in Roxbury -- The big shot -- Pinky's fall -- The Dolly funeral -- Fool-fool Rose is leaving labour-in-vain-Savannah -- Angelita and the golden days -- Shilling -- Talola's husband -- Alice and the dancing angel -- For my comrades wearing three-piece suits -- Dream lover -- Miss Henny, Suliman Santer, and me -- Mi amiga gran -- I come through.
This collection of short fiction, inviting readers into a world where people are in turn uplifted and undone by love, includes "The Helpweight," in which an accomplished woman must bear the burden of an old flame's renewed affections when he returns from a life abroad with his Irish bride in tow.
9780062127358 0062127357
Short stories.
Short stories.
Short stories.
Short stories.
Short stories.
Short stories.
F Ja Goo