The Dragon Can't Dance (Longman Caribbean Writers)

by EarlLovelace (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1981

  $3.44

  Winner of the Commonwealth Literature Prize for SALT in 1997. An illustration of shanty town life in Trinidad in the run-up to Carnival.

• New

  Paperback
  1998

  $11.45

  A story of shanty-town life in Trinidad. Calvary Hill is the home of Aldrick Prospect, who lives for the carnival and his once-a-year chance to play dragon. Here too live Miss Cleothilda, the ageing carnival queen, Philo the Calypsonian, and Fisheye, who flaunts his strength in the steel bands.