| Buxton Spice Contributor(s): Kempadoo, Oonya (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807083712 ISBN-13: 9780807083710 Publisher: Beacon Press OUR PRICE: $16.83 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2004 Annotation: Back in print: an extraordinary first novel by "a writer to watch and to enjoy."* Told in the voice of a girl as she moves from childhood into adolescence, Buxton Spice is the story the town of Tamarind Grove: its eccentric families, its sweeping joys, and its sudden tragedies. The novel brings to life 1970s Guyana--a world at a cultural and political crossroads--and perfectly captures a child's keen observations, sense of wonder, and the growing complexity of consciousness that marks the passage from innocence to experience. "A superb, and superbly written, novel of childhood and childhood's end . . . Kempadoo writes in a rich Creole, filling her story with kaleidoscopic images of Guyana's coastal plains . . . Her story is also one of sexual awakening, and she explores these new feelings with a curiosity and freedom that are refreshing . . . Kempadoo's novel, like the Buxton Spice mango tree, reveals its secrets, private and political, only sparingly until the bitter end." --Patrick Markee, New York Times Book Review "Oonya Kempadoo . . . has written a sexy, stirring, richly poetic semi-autobiographical first novel." --Gabriella Stern, Wall Street Journal "As juicy and ripe as the fruits drooping from the Buxton Spice mango tree . . . Kempadoo's Caribbean argot is precise and fluid, enriching this debut with bawdiness, violence, and raucous humor." --Los Angeles Times "There is a salt freshness to Kempadoo's writing, an immediacy which makes the reader catch breath for pleasure at the recognition of something exactly observed . . . She is a writer to watch and to enjoy, for her warmth, her fine intelligence and her striking use of language." --PaulaBurnett, The Independent (London)* |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Biographical - Fiction | Coming Of Age - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2004005973 |
| Series: Bluestreak |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5.36" W x 7.96" (0.41 lbs) 170 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Back in print: an extraordinary first novel by'a writer to watch and to enjoy.'* Told in the voice of a girl as she moves from childhood into adolescence, Buxton Spice is the story the town of Tamarind Grove: its eccentric families, its sweeping joys, and its sudden tragedies. The novel brings to life 1970s Guyana-a world at a cultural and political crossroads-and perfectly captures a child's keen observations, sense of wonder, and the growing complexity of consciousness that marks the passage from innocence to experience. |