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In this tale of identity and nation-hood Cliff evokes a Jamaica full of contradiction and complexity, a country where history and politics are played out in surroundings of overwhelming physical beauty. Slowly the Jamaican diaspora is revealed through the novel's main character, Clare Savage, whose family emigrates to the US when she is twelve... Clare's emotional and physical journey back to Jamaica and a positive , identification of herself as Jamaican -takes the form of a fascinating voyage through the polarities and dualities of race and sexuality, the relationships between the first and third worlds and a slavery and modern patterns of emigration. Cliff powerfully evokes the historical myths and truths of Jamaican and Black Americans, and the beauty and anguish of Modern anguish of modern Jamaica. City Limits Michelle Cliff is a remarkable author Guardian. Vividly and passionately written Financial Times. Potent and very moving Sunday Times
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Michelle Cliff was born in Jamaica and is the author of three acclaimed novels: Abeng, its sequel, No Telephone to Heaven, and Free Enterprise (Plume). She has also written a collection of short stories, Bodies of Water (Plume), and two poetry collections, The Land of Look Behind and Claiming an Identity They Tought Me to Despise. She is Allan K. Smith Professor of English Language and Literature at Trinity College in Connecticut and divides her time between Hartford, Connecticut, and Santa Cruz, California.
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"The beauty and authority of her writing is coupled in a rare way with profound insight."
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—Toni Morrison
"Mesmerizing ... possesses the incantatory power of poetry."
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"Structurally ambitious and innovative, making tangible through its form a vivid, spiraling tension between past and present ... a triumph of artistic integration, a hard-won harmony between the political and the personal, between realism and the mysteries of the spirit."
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"I am in awe of Michelle Cliff's achievement. The work is lyrical, intelligent, full of a moral passion kept taut and spare and absolutley unsentimental. The range of her knowledge, insight, and compassion is astonishing."
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"A tour de force. I very much admire what she does with language, and the fact that she's struggling with central issues of our time. A powerful book, truly a stupendous achievement: the complex sense of Jamaica with its anguish and its beauty. In her generation, Cliff is rare and is already distinguished as a writer of great substance and power."
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- PublisherMinerva
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0749390026
- ISBN 13 9780749390020
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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