The Speed of Darkness

By Rodney Morales

This is a special double issue of Bamboo Ridge, The Hawaiian Writer's Quarterly, issues No. 39 and 40, Summer and Fall, 1988. Short stories by Rodney Morales, who was born and raised on Oahu. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0910043167
• ISBN13: 9780910043168
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Bamboo Ridge Pr
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

I strongly recommend!

In spite of its incredible panoply of characters, settings, and situations, THE SPEED OF DARKNESS strikes no false notes, attempts nothing that is spoiled in its dramatic effect by implausibility. Its characters range from elementary school students to cab drivers, from unemployed Vietnam burnouts to widows turned prostitute, from Kaho'olawe campers to physics professor surfers. They represent a wide variety of ethnic cuts and mixtures and speak everything from heavy pidgin to textbook English. They all come to absolutely credible fictional life only because they all come FROM life. Neither an outsider to the Islands nor a lesser artist could have encompassed this variety or earned this triumph. THE SPEED OF DARKNESS is no minor feat. It is a book I strongly recommend to people who love the literature of Hawai'i, or the literature of anywhere. (from "Gauging THE SPEED OF DARKNESS," HAWAI'I REVIEW, Spring 1989, p. 129 ff.