Shape shifter
Subtitle: stories
By: by Pauline Melville.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
Description: A collection of short stories dealing with post-colonial life in the Caribbean, notably in the author's native Guyana, as well as of some stories set in London. Many of the characters, most of them displaced people from former colonies struggling to come to terms with a new life in Britain, attempt to find an identity, to reconcile their past and to escape from the restlessness hinted at in the title.
Table of contents: title: I do not take messages from dead people; title: The iron and the radio have gone; title: The conversion of Millicent Vernon; title: A disguised land; title: Tuxedo; title: A quarrelsome man; title: About that two pounds, Mrs Parrish; title: McGregor's journey; title: The truth is in the clothes; title: You left the door open; title: The girl with the celestial limb; title: Eat labba and drink creek water.