000344476 000__ 02161cam\a2200289\a\4500 000344476 001__ 344476 000344476 005__ 20210513124406.0 000344476 008__ 921001s1993\\\\nyu\\\\\\\\\\\000\1\eng\\ 000344476 010__ $$a 92037116 000344476 019__ $$a316254794 000344476 020__ $$a0684192608 000344476 020__ $$a9780684192604 000344476 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm26855535 000344476 040__ $$aDLC$$cDLC$$dBAKER$$dBTCTA$$dYDXCP$$dBTN$$dISE 000344476 043__ $$acc----- 000344476 049__ $$aISEA 000344476 05000 $$aPS3569.H284$$bS94 1993 000344476 08200 $$a813/.54$$220 000344476 1001_ $$aShacochis, Bob. 000344476 24510 $$aSwimming in the volcano :$$ba novel /$$cBob Shacochis. 000344476 260__ $$aNew York :$$bScribner's Sons ;$$aToronto :$$bMaxwell Macmillan Canada ;$$aNew York :$$bMaxwell Macmillan International,$$cc1993. 000344476 300__ $$av, 519 p. ;$$c25 cm. 000344476 5201_ $$a"Winner of the American Book Award for his collection of stories Easy in the Islands and the Prix de Rome for The Next New World, Bob Shacochis returns to the islands with a first novel possessed of the same beauty as the places and people of the Caribbean." "The volcano at the heart of the island of St. Catherine has smoldered as ominously and impotently as its politics for years, but lately things seem to be heating up. Mitchell Wilson, an American expatriate and economist for the Ministry of Agriculture, becomes unwittingly embroiled in an internecine war between rival factions of the government. Into this potentially eruptive scene enters a woman, Johanna, whom Mitchell once loved and lost but who remains an enchanting and powerful temptation - one he will not resist." "At once a beguiling love story and a superbly sophisticated political novel about the fruits of imperialism in the twentieth century, Swimming in the Volcano is as brutally seductive a novel as the world it evokes. Triumphantly compassionate, and imbued with Shacochis's insight into human affairs that "ranks with the best of Conrad and Hemingway," here is a commanding performance by "one of the most talented young writers working in America today.""--BOOK JACKET. 000344476 650_0 $$aAmericans$$zCaribbean Area$$vFiction. 000344476 651_0 $$aCaribbean Area$$vFiction. 000344476 655_7 $$aPolitical fiction.$$2lcgft 000344476 655_7 $$aRomance fiction.$$2lcgft 000344476 85200 $$bgen$$hPS3569.H284$$iS94$$i1993 000344476 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:344476$$pGLOBAL_SET 000344476 980__ $$aBIB 000344476 980__ $$aBOOK