Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (2055)
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White Egrets by Derek Walcott EN
Country: North America / 
St. Lucia
St. Lucia
Description:
A DAZZLING NEW COLLECTION FROM ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT POETS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY In White Egrets, Derek Walcott treats the characteristic subjects of his career—the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, his love of the Western literary tradition, the wisdom that comes through the passing of time, the always strange joys of new love, and the sometimes terrifying beauty of the natural world—with an intensity and drive that recall his greatest work. Through the mesmerizing repetition of theme and imagery, Walcott creates an almost surflike cadence, broadening the possibilities of rhyme and ... continue
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Dream on Monkey Mountain : And Other Plays by Derek Walcott EN
Country: North America / St. Lucia
St. Lucia
Description:
On a Caribbean island, the morning after a full moon, Felix Hobain tears through the market in a drunken rage. Taken away to sober up in jail, all that night he is gripped by hallucinations: the impoverished hermit believes he has become a healer, walking from village to village, tending to the sick, waiting for a sign from God. In this dream, his one companion, Moustique, wants to exploit his power. Moustique decides to impersonate a prophet himself, ignoring a coffin-maker who warns him he will die and enraging the people of the island. Hobain, half-awake in his desolate jail cell, terrorize... continue
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Shades of Grey by Garth St. Omer EN
Country: North America / St. Lucia
St. Lucia
Description:
As Stephenson, who almost accidentally finds himself as a mature student at university, comes closer to his girl-friend Thea, with her easy talk of her family, he has to acknowledge that he has never known his father, not lived with his mother, and cannot remember what his grandparents looked like. He knows, too, that his failure to come clean about a disreputable episode in his past threatens their relationship. The Lights on the Hill, the first of two interdependent short novels in Shades of Grey, is a moving and inward portrait of a man trying in his halting way to construct his own story. ... continue
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Country: North America / St. Lucia
St. Lucia
Description:
"Eugene Coard is woken one morning by a phone call to report the murder of a former St. Lucian friend. It throws him back to memories of their island days, and his complicated love life in London that made necessary his relocation to the USA. Thoughts about his friend's metamorphosis from middle-class "CB" to criminal, ghetto-dwelling "Red" provoke Eugene to review his own so far profitable transformations. But just how much of Eugene's story can we believe? His confessions reveal him as probably the most unreliable and devious narrator in Caribbean fiction; has he, as a writer and psychiatris... continue
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Country: North America / St. Lucia
St. Lucia
Description:
Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and friendship. Walcott records the experience of middle life - in reality and in memory or the imagination. On the publication of Derek Walcott's previous collection, The Fortunate Traveller, Blake Morrison wrote in the London Review of Books: ' The Forunate Traveller is an impressive collection that moves lucidly and at times brilliantly between ab... continue
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Country: North America / St. Lucia
St. Lucia
Description:
Among the various avatars that the legendary aura of Homer and his work have known throughout the history of English letters, perhaps the two most astonishing are Joyce's Ulysses and Walcott's Omeros. As in the Iliad ("Omeros" is Homer's name "in the ancient language of the islands"), invoked by a Greek girl, Antigone, exiled in America), the story begins with the rivalry for the love of a woman. She is not a princess but a black Antillean maid, and those who fight for her are not kings but fishermen, but Helena's face is one of those in which the gods "consecrate all the beauty of a race." Sh... continue
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Letters to My Son by Stephen Dantes EN
Country: North America / St. Lucia
St. Lucia
Description:
Saint Lucian poet, Stephen A. Dantes compiles a collection he dedicates to an imaginary son. Entitled, Letters to My Son, the poems simulate conversations a father might have with a son as he teaches him about the ways of the world and how to make decisions.
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