Swimming in the Volcano - Softcover

Shacochis, Bob

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ISBN 10: 0140236589 ISBN 13: 9780140236583

Publisher: Penguin, 1994

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An American economist stationed on the Caribbean island of St. Catherine becomes unwittingly embroiled in an internecine war between rival political coalitions. By the author of the American Book Award-winning Easy in the Islands. A first novel. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. Tour.

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"Scores of island people, from conspiring politicians to barbers on the beach, sprawl across the pages like oleander and hibiscus . . . each of [the book's] scenes is expertly wrought."

About the Author:

A contributing editor for Outside and Harper's, Bob Shacochis has been a GQ columnist and writer for numerous other national publications. He is also the author of the novel, Swimming in the Volcano, a work of literary reportage about Haiti, The Immaculate Invasion, a second collection of stories, The Next New World, and a collection of essays on food and love, Domesticity. He lives in Florida and New Mexico.

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