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Easy in the Islands
Easy in the Islands
Author: Bob Shacochis
A calypso bandleader, Lord Short Shoe, schemes with a sexy black singer to bilk an American out of his pride and his companion monkey. Two poor islanders stumble in a violent encounter that might just escalate into revolution. And an entire island bureaucracy casually confounds the attempts of a hotel owner to get his dead mother out of the free...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780140083019
ISBN-10: 0140083014
Publication Date: 1/2/1986
Pages: 224
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Publisher: Penguin Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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"Beguilling stories...about an uncommonly fascinating part of the hemisphere. Shacochis's talent seems more then a match for the subjects at hand." - Time

Winner of the National Book Award for First Fiction.


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