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Review Of Diana McCaulay’s Dog-Heart
Title: Dog-Heart Author: Diana McCaulay Publisher: Peepal Trees Press, 2010. 242 pages. Reviewed by: Mary Hanna (via Jamaica Observer newspaper) Buy Dog-Heart online @Amazon “Listen. So the little boy goes over and picks up one of the starfish and puts it in the sea. But there are thousands of them and the father says to [...]
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Sunday, June 20, 2010
In today’s Sunday Gleaner, Mel Cooke has reviewed Diana McCaulay’s Dog-Heart. “The subject matter of Diana McCaulay’s Dog-Heart is overly familiar in the fiction of novels, the flow of verse, and the read-and-toss of newsprint. In her debut novel, McCaulay addresses the Jamaican social divide, which is especially striking in the urban centres (in Dog-Heart [...]
Continue reading...Review Of Diana McCaulay’s Dog-Heart
Monday, April 19, 2010
Title: Dog-Heart Author: Diana McCaulay Publisher: Peepal Tree Press, UK. 241 pages Reviewer: Ralph Thompson My admiration for Diana McCaulay’s debut novel, Dog-Heart, is unbounded. She deals with the ancient “Good Samaritan” theme in a Jamaican context with new insight, poise and compassion. Sahara Longmore, a middle-class ‘browning’, is approached by a child beggar named [...]
Continue reading...The Launch Of Diana McCaulay’s Dog-Heart
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Today’s Sunday Gleaner newspaper carries a Chester Francis-Jackson review of the recent launch event for Diana McCaulay’s Dog-Heart book. “It has been 10 years in the making, but McCaulay has turned yet another page in her life, and this time, the crusading conservationist can now add author to her list of achievements. Her first book, [...]
Continue reading...Dog-Heart – Diana McCaulay
Monday, March 29, 2010
Environmental activist and newspaper columnist, Diana McCaulay, recently released her debut novel: Dog-Heart. Dog-Heart is a novel about race and class, about a well-intentioned middle class woman – Sahara Longmore – and Dexter, the inner-city boy she takes under her wing. It’s a good book; it is actually the winner of the 2008 Jamaica Cultural [...]
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Friday, January 21, 2011
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