Cruising Caribbean

By William T. Stone

Book Overview

A nomadic family of circus performers, refugees from Romania, travels through Europe and Africa by caravan. The mother's death-defying act causes constant anxiety for her two daughters, who voice their fears through a grisly communal fairy tale about a child being cooked alive in polenta-but their real life is no less of a dark fable, and one that seems just as unlikely to have a happy ending. An actor and performance artist as well as a poet and novelist, Veteranyi was acclaimed for her seemingly artless narrative voice, in which pain and hilarity always vie for the upper hand-a voice at once lyrical and jaded, prurient and spiritual, comical and horrifying.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399135472
• ISBN13: 9780399135477
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Putnam Adult
• Length: 542 Pages
• Weight: 2.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.6" x 1.9" x 6.6"