Nor any Country
Education has taken Peter Breville away from his native St Lucia for the past eight years. Now, appointed to a university post in Jamaica, he decides he must see his family on his way from England.
Price
£8.99
Author(s)
Garth St. Omer
ISBN number
9781845232291
Pages
124
Price
£8.99
Classification
Caribbean Modern Classics
Fiction, Novel
Country setting
St Lucia
United Kingdom
Publication date
04 Nov 2013

Education has taken Peter Breville away from his native St Lucia for the past eight years. Now, appointed to a university post in Jamaica, he decides he must see his family on his way from England. There is his mother, whom he loves, his father with whom he has never got on, and his brother, with whom boyhood competition turned sour. And there is Phyllis, his wife, who, though he has not once contacted her since he left, has waited patiently for his return, determined to be a wife to him. 

In the week he spends with his family and meeting old friends, he discovers a St Lucia that, in the early 1960s, is on the point of emerging into the modern capitalist world, but where the disparities between the new middle class and the impoverished black majority has become ever wider. In the midst of this, he must decide what he owes Phyllis. 

Nor Any Country, first published in 1968, is a profound and elegantly written exploration of the complexities of individual moral choice and an acutely insightful study of a society in the process of change.

Garth St Omer was born in Castries, St Lucia in 1931. During the earlier 1950s St Omer was part of a group of artists in St Lucia including Roderick and Derek Walcott and the artist Dunstan St Omer.

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Garth St. Omer

Garth St Omer was born in Castries, St Lucia in 1931.
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