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Four taxis facing north : short stories
- Title
- Four taxis facing north : short stories / Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw.
- Author
- Walcott-Hackshaw, Elizabeth
- Publication
- Leeds : Peepal Tree Press Ltd., 2017.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Arts Council England.
- Description
- 171 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "In Trinidad, oil wealth supported the growth of probably the most prosperous and conspicuously consuming middle-class in the Caribbean. But there was a price to pay for the deepened social inequalities that resulted: a deep paranoia rooted in the fear of crime and social upheaval. The stories in Four Taxies Facing North comprise a beautifully written and finely observed portrait of contemporary Trinidadian society, taking us inside the very human lives of both rich and poor - and their infrequent and often uncomfortable interactions. Without loosing faith in human capacity for renewal, they offer few comforting illusions. The title story, in the mode of speculative fiction, envisions a nightmare of future possibilities based on the anarchic realities of the present. In prose of great clarity and a deeply satisfying exactness, deft characterisation and shapeliness of form, these stories present a moral vision that is both necessary and bracing, prophetic but not preachy."
- Subjects
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Short stories, Trinidadian and Tobagonian (English)
- Black author
- Social conditions
- Short stories, Trinidadian and Tobagonian (English) > Women authors
- Trinidadian and Tobagonian fiction (English) > Women authors
- Trinidad and Tobago > Social conditions > Fiction
- Short stories
- Specimens
- Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Short stories, Trinidadian and Tobagonian (English) – Women authors.
- Trinidadian and Tobagonian fiction (English) – Women authors.
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Specimens.
- Note
- First published in Great Britain in 2007 by Flambard Press.
- Funding (note)
- Supported with funding by Arts Council England.
- Contents
- Introduction / Lawrence Scott -- Here -- Strange fruit -- The dolphin's smile -- Killing moons -- Four taxis facing north -- The party -- The ward -- The boulevard -- The longest rope -- Pine hill -- Kite season.
- Call Number
- Sc D 18-148
- ISBN
- 1845233476
- 9781845233471
- OCLC
- 962009852
- Author
- Walcott-Hackshaw, Elizabeth, author.
- Title
- Four taxis facing north : short stories / Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw.
- Publisher
- Leeds : Peepal Tree Press Ltd., 2017.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Funding
- Supported with funding by Arts Council England.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Arts Council England.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 18-148