Summer Lightning and Other Stories (Longman Caribbean Writers Series)

by Olive Senior

Book Overview

A short story. The authors setting is rural Jamaica; her heroes are the naive and the vulnerable, who bring to life with power and realism issues such as snobbery, ambition, jealousy, faith and love. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582786274
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.5" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Gorgeous

I have read and reread the first story so many times...the life of a desolate little boy's life...so finely detailed so heart rending, so spatial. As a Jamaican woman and an architect, I used this story in my thesis for the representation of a Jamaican life in a Jamaican landscape. If you want to know about my people, this is a beautiful glimpse into the way we talk about ourselves to each other.

I still have fond memories from my school days

I studied this book for literature when I was in high school and thoroughly enjoyed it. Each story focuses on the lives of children from different economical and social backgrounds in Jamaica, each one experiencing a different form of conflict as they face a critical stage of their development. Most of the stories are written in Jamaican dialect which is rich and colorful allowing the reader a great insight into rural Jamaica and the way of life that is unique to the scenes of the stories.