Colin Channer (309 results)

Hardback. Condition: Fair. Carey is a playwright, whose life undergoes a dramatic change when he meets Frances, a former singer and member of a mystical African tribe. A one night stand quickly binds them not only by love and attraction, but by history. To Carey, Frances is the woman he saw on TV five years before, on the day he tried to kill himself. To Frances, Carey is a mythical figure from her tribe's past, one that carries deep significance for her present. Led by her to Africa on a journey of adventure and self discovery, Carey finally finds a way to satisfy his soul.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Carey is a playwright, whose life undergoes a dramatic change when he meets Frances, a former singer and member of a mystical African tribe. A one night stand quickly binds them not only by love and attraction, but by history. To Carey, Frances is the woman he saw on TV five years before, on the day he tried to kill himself. To Frances, Carey is a mythical figure from her tribe's past, one that carries deep significance for her present. Led by her to Africa on a journey of adventure and self discovery, Carey finally finds a way to satisfy his soul.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Carey is a playwright, whose life undergoes a dramatic change when he meets Frances, a former singer and member of a mystical African tribe. A one night stand quickly binds them not only by love and attraction, but by history. To Carey, Frances is the woman he saw on TV five years before, on the day he tried to kill himself. To Frances, Carey is a mythical figure from her tribe's past, one that carries deep significance for her present. Led by her to Africa on a journey of adventure and self discovery, Carey finally finds a way to satisfy his soul.…

Condition: Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: Reprint ] Publisher: One World/Ballantine Pub Date: 1/1/2002 Binding: Hardcover Pages: 256 Reprint edition.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 1942, on the imagined island of San Carlos. 14-year-old Estrella Thomson is banished from the isolated fishing village where she has lived all her life. Her crime? Wanting to read and write. Prematurely ripe in body and mind and contemptuous of the boundaries placed on her by gender, race and social class, Estrella decides to go to Europe - the place where everything interesting seems to happen. But she has to get money for a ticket on a steamer, which means she has to get a job - which means she needs a pair of shoes, something she has never owned in her life. Naivety and hope abound.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Now in paperback, a sensual examination of the nature and love and the healing power of myth, by the acclaimed author of Waiting in Vein. Playwright Carey's life undergoes a dramatic change when he meets Frances, a singer and member of a mystical African tribe. To Carey, Frances is the woman he saw on TV five years before, on the day he tried to kill himself. To Frances, Carey is a mythical figure from her tribe's past, one that carries deep significance for her present. Led by her on a journey of adventure and self-discovery, Carey finally finds a way to satisfy his soul. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Spanning the early 1900s up to modern times, the stories is Passing Through trace the intersecting lives of travellers, expatriates and local folks on a Caribbean island. From the American photographer who finds her world disturbed by new forms of love and lust, to a military doctor who is unwittingly seduced by a revolutionary, to a charismatic priest confronted by the earthly perks of fame and stardom, the diverse mix of characters are united by the universal search for love and understanding - a challenge on an island simmering with issues of politics, power and race.…

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. Reprint. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Best-selling writer Colin Channer's debut poetry collection tackles the unlikely literary figure of the Jamaican policeman. "The Caribbean policeman is a character both foreign and familiar at the center of this intimate debut poetry collection. Combining Jamaican patois and American English, it tells the story of violence, loss, and recovery in the wake of colonialism." --O, the Oprah Magazine, One of 19 Books to Pick Up This October "Extremely worthwhile . . . Channer brings an Olive Senior like narrativity to these sharp character sketches, and by deploying his keen novelist's eye he can trace the actions and effects of power on these men and their families in interesting and compelling language." --Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Channer's debut poetry collection achieves an intimate and lyric meditation on family, policing, loss, and violence, but the work is enlivened by humor, tenderness, and the rich possibilities that come from honest reflection. Combined with a capacity to offer physical landscapes with painterly sensitivity and care, a graceful mining of the nuances of Jamaican patwa and American English, and a judicious use of metaphor and similie, Providential is a work of "heartical" insight and vulnerability. Not since Claude McKay's Constab Ballads of 1912 has a writer attempted to tackle the unlikely literary figure of the Jamaican policeman. Now, over a century later, Channer draws on his own knowledge of Jamaican culture, on his complex relationship with his father (a Jamaican policeman), and frames these poems within the constantly humane principles of Rasta and reggae. The poems within Providential manage to turn the intricate relationships between a man and his father, a man and his mother, and man and his country, and a man and his children into something akin to grace.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Meet Fire - Jamaican born, charming, poetic and talented - a man who's vowed never to play love is blind' games again. Then he meets Sylvia, a beautiful magazine editor and together they must choose between the love in their lives and the love of their lives. From the brownstones of Brooklyn and the nightclubs of London to the streets of Kingston, Channer takes us on a wild, soul-searching ride as Fire and Sylvia try to connect, disconnect and reconnect amid conflicting desires and wounds from the past.'.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Meet Fire - Jamaican born, charming, poetic and talented - a man who's vowed never to play love is blind' games again. Then he meets Sylvia, a beautiful magazine editor and together they must choose between the love in their lives and the love of their lives. From the brownstones of Brooklyn and the nightclubs of London to the streets of Kingston, Channer takes us on a wild, soul-searching ride as Fire and Sylvia try to connect, disconnect and reconnect amid conflicting desires and wounds from the past.'.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Meet Fire - Jamaican born, charming, poetic and talented - a man who's vowed never to play love is blind' games again. Then he meets Sylvia, a beautiful magazine editor and together they must choose between the love in their lives and the love of their lives. From the brownstones of Brooklyn and the nightclubs of London to the streets of Kingston, Channer takes us on a wild, soul-searching ride as Fire and Sylvia try to connect, disconnect and reconnect amid conflicting desires and wounds from the past.'.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. First Edition. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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Hardback. Condition: Fair. Carey is a playwright, whose life undergoes a dramatic change when he meets Frances, a former singer and member of a mystical African tribe. A one night stand quickly binds them not only by love and attraction, but by history. To Carey, Frances is the woman he saw on TV five years before, on the day he tried to kill himself. To Frances, Carey is a mythical figure from her tribe's past, one that carries deep significance for her present. Led by her to Africa on a journey of adventure and self discovery, Carey finally finds a way to satisfy his soul.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Carey is a playwright, whose life undergoes a dramatic change when he meets Frances, a former singer and member of a mystical African tribe. A one night stand quickly binds them not only by love and attraction, but by history. To Carey, Frances is the woman he saw on TV five years before, on the day he tried to kill himself. To Frances, Carey is a mythical figure from her tribe's past, one that carries deep significance for her present. Led by her to Africa on a journey of adventure and self discovery, Carey finally finds a way to satisfy his soul.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Carey is a playwright, whose life undergoes a dramatic change when he meets Frances, a former singer and member of a mystical African tribe. A one night stand quickly binds them not only by love and attraction, but by history. To Carey, Frances is the woman he saw on TV five years before, on the day he tried to kill himself. To Frances, Carey is a mythical figure from her tribe's past, one that carries deep significance for her present. Led by her to Africa on a journey of adventure and self discovery, Carey finally finds a way to satisfy his soul.…

Condition: Fair. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: first ] Publisher: One World/Ballantine Pub Date: 6/23/1998 Binding: Hardcover Pages: 346 first edition.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.