By love possessed
Subtitle: stories
By: Lorna Goodison
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Amistad
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780062127358
Subjects: Short stories
Description: This collection of short fiction, inviting readers into a world where people are in turn uplifted and undone by love, includes "The Helpweight," in which an accomplished woman must bear the burden of an old flame's renewed affections when he returns from a life abroad with his Irish bride in tow.
Table of contents: title: The helpweight; title: Jamaica hope; title: Henry; title: Bella makes life; title: By love possessed; title: Don't sit on the beauty seat; title: God's help; title: House colour; title: Wedding in Roxbury; title: The big shot; title: Pinky's fall; title: The Dolly funeral; title: Fool-fool Rose is leaving labour-in-vain-Savannah; title: Angelita and the golden days; title: Shilling; title: Talola's husband; title: Alice and the dancing angel; title: For my comrades wearing three-piece suits; title: Dream lover; title: Miss Henny, Suliman Santer, and me; title: Mi amiga gran; title: I come through.