Macadam Dreams

Name: Macadam Dreams
Price: 5.98 USD
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ISBN: 9780803287730

ISBN-10: 0803287739

ISBN-13: 9780803287730

Edition: 2003

Authors: Gisele Pineau, C. Dickson, Gisele Pineau

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A cyclone inexorably sweeps Eliette into her past in this novel about the wayward violence of love and nature in Guadeloupe. InMacadam Dreamsthe celebrated Creole writer Gisèle Pineau cunningly unveils the two cataclysms that have devastated Eliette’s life: first, the cyclone of 1928, when she was only eight years old, and now, Hurricane Hugo, whose destruction shatters the elaborate defenses the old woman has built around the sorrows and madness of her life in the small, accursed town of Savane Mulet. As Hugo unleashes its fury, a final blow frees Eliette’s repressed memories of madness, isolation, and loss, and of the grievous failure of a prophecy that promised her a child. A story of…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 9/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 215
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English