Ferdinand Dennis

THE BLACK AND WHITE MUSEUM (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

From Ferdinand Dennis, the critically acclaimed author of the novel Duppy Conqueror, comes The Black and White Museum, a collection of both highly personal and universal short stories. These at their heart reveal the emotional drama of faded love, the loss of individual and shared memory and the wistful longing for home. His stories powerfully portray the black presence in post-Windrush London, with its hurtling gentrification and everyday racism. Ferdinand's characters gain wisdom and maturity with age but become powerless, as they are less able to change the course of their lives. For some there is the temptation of a return "home" but home, like London, has also moved on and is not the paradise of their memories.

'I first encountered the short story form during my West London Comprehensive schooldays in Doris Lessing's Nine African Short Stories. Since then I have devoured short stories from de Maupassant, Joyce, Somerset Maugham, Flannery O'Connor, Marquez, John Cheever and William Trevor, as well as collections from the Caribbean, North and South America and Britain'. Ferdinand Dennis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HopeRoad Publishing.com
• Seitenzahl: 205
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781913109172
• Artikelnr.: 62735537

Autorenporträt

Ferdinand Dennis is a writer, broadcaster, journalist, and lecturer, who is Jamaican by birth but at the age of eight moved to England. His writing has been published in the Guardian, Granta, Critical Quarterly, and IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain. HEe is the author of three novels - The Sleepless Summer (1989), The Last Blues Dance (1996); and Duppy Conqueror (1998) - and two travelogues: Behind the Frontlines: Journey into Afro-Britain (1988) - his first book, which won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize - and Back to Africa: A Journey (1992). He co-edited Voices of the Crossing: The Impact of Britain on Writers from Asia, the Caribbean and Africa.