Description
Alfred H. Mendes was a member of the Beacon group of writers in Trinidad in the 1930s and friend and colleague of C.L.R. James and Ralph de Boissiere. He was a prolific writer, with a distinctive and engaging voice, and he wrote a significant number of short stories, many of which have never been published and most of which were written between 1920 and 1940.
"The Man Who Ran Away" is a collection of twelve stories with an introduction and short glossary of Trinidadian Creole words and phrases. The book is useful as a text for university literature courses, with an introduction designed for students unfamiliar with Mendes's work, but not so dauntingly academic as to discourage a general readership.
Author: Michèle Levy, Alfred H. Mendes
Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
Published: 01/30/2006
Pages: 190
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.34w x 0.62d
ISBN13: 9789766401733
ISBN10: 976640173X
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American
- Literary Collections | Caribbean & Latin American