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Flaming Hearts
Excerpt
It's good to be alive.
The evening is gentle on me. The splashing of the waves has grown into a happy comforting monotony ‑ like children at play. There is money in my pocket from a hard week's work and the evening holds a promise of something good.
If Breeze could see me now.
Now this woman comes toward me. As she comes, I wonder if I have seen any one before who has so mastered the art of putting one foot in front of the other. She walks as a woman should, with the easy, natural gait of a thoroughbred.
As she comes, images flash across my mind, of places and scenes I know so well, of times, experiences, dimensions of life and love explored ... of Breeze.
Product Description
Flaming Hearts and Other Stories is Ellis’ first published collection. The collection which won the National Book Development Council first prize for adult literature in 1993 (The Una Marson Award) was published in 1996 and established Ellis as a new and unmistakable voice among Jamaican story-tellers. The characters that people these stories are the “ordinary Jamaican people” Garfield Ellis says it is his calling to write about,
The writer’s power lies in transforming the stories of these ordinary people, speaking in authentic Jamaican voices and living comfortably in their environment, into tales of relationships, and internal struggle and concerns universal to the human condition.
Meanwhile, the author’s own relationship with the backdrop – his beautiful island – plays always lyrically in the background.
STORIES
Breeze
A boy finds camaraderie and a role model in the carefree life of a beach-roaming womanizer.
Flaming Hearts
Two boys struggle to find themselves and their confidence in the face of their faith and fear of a harsh and disciplined teacher.
Sparing Partner
Love tests the limits of friendship as two people try hard to keep their relationship within platonic bounds.
Caney
The story of a sugar cane vendor’s quest to win the heart of a lonely housewife
Rain
A man discovers that the woman he gives shelter in his car from the rain is more than just another passerby.
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