No Telephone to Heaven - Hardcover

Cliff, Michelle

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525245081 ISBN 13: 9780525245087

Publisher: E P Dutton, 1987

Synopsis

In this poetic novel about colonialism and contemporary Jamaica, a light-skinned woman must find the courage to face the violence that can arise from oppression and divided loyalties

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Review:

"The beauty and authority of her writing is coupled in a rare way with profound insight."
--Toni Morrison

"Mesmerizing ... possesses the incantatory power of poetry."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Structurally ambitious and innovative, making tangible through its form a vivid, spiraling tension between past and present ... a triumph of artistic integration, a hard-won harmony between the political and the personal, between realism and the mysteries of the spirit."
--Washington Post Book World

"I am in awe of Michelle Cliff's achievement. The work is lyrical, intelligent, full of a moral passion kept taut and spare and absolutley unsentimental. The range of her knowledge, insight, and compassion is astonishing."
--Janette Turner Hospital

"A tour de force. I very much admire what she does with language, and the fact that she's struggling with central issues of our time. A powerful book, truly a stupendous achievement: the complex sense of Jamaica with its anguish and its beauty. In her generation, Cliff is rare and is already distinguished as a writer of great substance and power."
--Tillie Olsen

About the Author:

Michelle Cliff was born in Jamaica and is the author of three acclaimed novels: Abeng, its sequel, No Telephone to Heaven, and Free Enterprise (Plume). She has also written a collection of short stories, Bodies of Water (Plume), and two poetry collections, The Land of Look Behind and Claiming an Identity They Tought Me to Despise. She is Allan K. Smith Professor of English Language and Literature at Trinity College in Connecticut and divides her time between Hartford, Connecticut, and Santa Cruz, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: E P Dutton
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0525245081
• ISBN 13: 9780525245087
• Binding: Hardcover