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| Tide Running (Bluestreak) |  | Author: Oonya Kempadoo
Publisher: Beacon Press
Category: Book
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Seller: CarlyChris0515
Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 1,407,542
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 224
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 0807083739
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780807083734
ASIN: 0807083739
Publication Date: June 15, 2004
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Cliff and Ossi have grown up in Plymouth on the island of Tobago, their lives turning on the axis of small-town life. One day they watch the arrival of a couple and their child at a luxurious house overlooking the ocean. The couple invites Cliff into their home and lives, and in that cool "flim-style" house, the harsh, brittle life of urban Plymouth is kept briefly at bay, desires obscuring differences in class and race. But then things begin to go wrong—money vanishes, the couple"s car disappears—and those differences are brought suddenly to light, raising unsettling questions about relationships, wealth, and responsibility.
"Oonya Kempadoo"s Tide Running is effective, beautiful, and haunting . . . and pulses with a distinctive Caribbean rhythm."
—Glenville Lovell, Washington Post
"With a finely tuned ear for the cadences of the Caribbean . . .. Kempadoo succeeds in turning an unsettling tale into an exploration of the global politics of desire."
—The New Yorker
"A vividly imagined [tale] by this poetically gifted, politically incisive young Caribbean writer."
—Elle magazine
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 Lovely rhythm, interesting slice of life December 29, 2008
Jessica Hazlewood (Northern California)
Tide Running was recommended to me by a friend last spring. At the end of my semester, I eagerly purchased a copy for a leisurely summer read, but found myself tearing through it at break-neck speed. In retrospect, I sense that part of what kept me reading was its wonderful sense of rhythm, both in its sentences, and in the narrative. I enjoyed the different perspectives gained in reading this book about a place I know little to nothing about, and enjoyed this introduction to a very talented writer. The story has stayed with me, and I sense I will be returning to this writer to dip into the lives of her other characters.
Authentically Caribbean January 13, 2006
Art Love (Canada)
With the realism of a documentary film maker,
Oonya Kempadoo chronicles the lives of two
economically challenged Tobagonian brothers ,
Cliff and Ossi. Fascination with a well off
couple living on the island , soon reels the
older of the two brothers , Cliff , into a
maze of sex , deceit and chaos.
The accurate dialect and vivid descriptions
used by the author , mentally transport the
reader to the tiny island of Tobago.
 Sexy and Poetic May 26, 2003
Booklover (United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I stayed up all night with this one. Once I started I couldn't put it down. A menage trois' on a Carribean island with a married couple and a young man who appears innocent and naive(at first). The suspense, the eroticism, all quietly sneak up on you until you're holding your breath until the very last page. A MUST READ!
Gorgeous, evocative and profound May 21, 2003
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This novel about a poor young Tobagon man and his encounter with a wealthy couple who draw him into their lives, blithely, without considering the consequences, is one of the best portrayals of contemporary Caribbean life I've ever read. Brilliant, sensual, and ultimately disturbing, Tide Running is, like Kempadoo's first novel, Buxton Spice, an exploration of the effects of class and wealth on a young nation trying to come into its own in the shadow of its wealthy neighbor to the north.
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