The white man in the tree, and other stories
By: Mark Kulansky.
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Description: "A comedy of cultural misunderstandings set in the Caribbean, New York, and Paris, a novella and eight stories about people who, because of their differences--between men and women, blacks and whites, Caribbeans and visitors, Jews and Christians, rich and poor--misjudge each other."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: The white man in the tree : a novella in two parts --; title: Devaluation --; title: The unclean --; title: Naked --; title: Beautiful Mayagüez women --; title: Vertical administration --; title: Packets and paperscraps --; title: The deerness of life --; title: Desaparecidos --; title: The white man's glossary.