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Her novels evoke both the clearly delineated hierarchies of colonial Jamaica and the subtleties of present-day island life. Nowhere is her power felt more than in Clare Savage, her Jamaican heroine, who appeared, already grown, in No Telephone to Heaven.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- rawmeticulous
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Michelle Cliff
- First published
- 1983
- Pages
- 167
- Publisher
- Plume, Crossing Pr, Persephone Press
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780930436186
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