In today’ s Gleaner newspaper, Paul H. Williams reviews Tony Tame’s book “The Village Curtain: A Jamaica Collection”.
It is not surprising that Tame wrote a collection of stories that are invariably about fishing, fisher-folk and the sea, with vivid descriptions of the geography and fauna of the locations. Set in fictitious Jamaican coastal communities, with the mention of real-life places such as Black River and Manchioneal, the stories do not fall within the conventional box of fiction writing. While some of them have a subtle amount of tension, the elements of exposition, complication, crisis, falling action and resolution are not pronounced … more
Get “The Village Curtain: A Jamaica Collection” online @Amazon
Leave a Reply