Swimming in the Volcano (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Bob Shacochis
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1976-1977
- Setting: St. Catherine, a fictional island nation in the Lesser Antilles
- Principal Characters: Mitchell Wilson, Johanna “Johnnie” Woods Fernandez, Tillman Hyde, Adrian Roberts, Sally Jorgensen, Isaac Knowles, Josephine, Selwyn Walker, Cassius “Iman Ibrahim” Collymore
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1970’s, Caribbean, Politics, Prisoners, Love or romance, Islands, Agriculture, Birth control
- Locales: Lesser Antilles
The nice thing about a small place like St. Catherine is that everybody knows everybody else. The politicians went to school together, refer to the prime minister as “Eddy,” and at night gather with the island’s other leading lights at the Rosehill Plantation beach bar for drinks and talk, quite a bit of both. For these reasons, it is hard to start a revolution on St. Catherine:
The evening’s specialty seemed to he contempt, dished out cold upon the reputation of the island’s growing corps of soothsayers predicting a civil war. “And who de hell gum fight it?” one...
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