Dancing Nude in the Moonlight (Macmillan Caribbean Writers) - Softcover

Joanne C. Hillhouse

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405012692 ISBN 13: 9781405012690

Publisher: Macmillan Caribbean, 2004

Synopsis

Selena's ex-partner has left her in a strange land with a baby and two younger sisters to care for. It's hard for Spanish-speaking immigrants to get work, and Selena earns little from the crochet dolls and doilies she makes to sell. The middle sister, Celia, works in a hotel at a job she hates, but it pays the rent and puts food on the table. Pamela is still at school. The three came from the Dominican Republic in the hope of a better living in Antigua. But Antiguans are hostile to the immigrant community in their midst, seeing the newcomers as intruders come to steal away their jobs and their menfolk. Only Pamela settles easily into the new life. And it is Pamela who is instrumental in bringing Michael, her cricket coach, into Selena's drab world. For Michael it is love at first sight. But Selena has been too deeply hurt by misplaced love in the past, and Michael must woo her with patience and understanding. Then, as Selena's guard begins to lower, Victor, her ex-partner, makes his reappearance.

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Review:

"Dancing Nude in the Moonlight is a literary treat for the soul. The writer takes the reader into the hearts and minds of each character and allows the reader to evoke and stir inner feelings that connects the reader and character with genuine emotions. A true page turner that never misses a beat..." --Carolyn D. Punter, Sun Weekend (Barbados)

About the Author:

Joanne C. Hillhouse is a freelance journalist, winner of Antigua's Environmental Journalist of the Year Award 2002. Dancing Nude in the Moonlight, with its sensitive exploration of the lives of immigrants in Antigua from the Dominican Republic, is her second novel. Her first novel, also published in the Macmillan Caribbean Writers Series, was the finely crafted coming-of-age story The Boy from Willow Bend.. She was associate producer and production manager for Antigua's first two locally produced full-length independent films, The Sweetest Mango and No Seed. She writes poetry as well as fiction, and had her first piece published while she was still at school. Since then her work ahs appeared in publications both in Antigua and internationally.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Caribbean
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1405012692
• ISBN 13: 9781405012690
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144