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At Home with Miss Vanesa

At Home with Miss Vanesa

by E.A.Markham (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

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Synopsis

Returnees to the island of Montserrat are making a new life on a Caribbean island they call home. After all their time in London, Boston and Paris, their birthplace now presents something of a challenge. But when Miss Vanesa's artistic club meets on the verandah there's seduction and sardines, jacuzzis and world affairs to keep them busy. Nora, 'Fred' and Vanesa like to discuss the foolishness of men and draft letters to exclude undesirables. They ponder Arwell's dreams of a perfect marriage to Condoleezza Rice. And they ask how can Russell Trajan be so half-witted as to land up on a beach in Guadeloupe, then Antigua, to miss his father's funeral on another island.These playful, meandering perspectives guide the reader in a virtuous circle of travelling and visiting, hosting and being a guest.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 267
 Publisher: Tindal Street Press
Published: 05 Oct 2006
ISBN 10: 095513840X
ISBN 13: 9780955138409
Book Overview: Longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2007

Media Reviews
This is another unclassifiable gem of a book from E. A. Markham . . . very clever and immensely warm * Independent *
This is the liveliest of reading companions, both edgy and charming . . . Markham and his loose-linked cycle of stories are damn good company * Jim Crace *
Markham's absorbing, speculative, digressive new work belongs to no known genre. This book navigates a difficult emotional terrain of displacement, literary politics and memory, yet manages to be moving without being maudlin ... to make us feel optimistic, uncomfortable and gutted - all at once * Guardian *
Author Bio
E. A. MARKHAM was born on the volcanic Caribbean island of Montserrat and went to school in 1950s London. He lived mainly in continental Europe in the 1970s, where he was a member of the Cooperative Ouvriere du Batiment, building and restoring houses in the Alpes Maritimes. He was Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University, Inter-national Writing Fellow at Trinity College Dublin and a member of the Royal Society of Literature. He died in 2008.