By the Best Selling author of The Painted Canoe soon to be a major Motion Picture The Lunatic now a Motion Picture and The Great Yacht Race Anthony C. Winkler GOING HOME TO TEACH "Everyone going, and you coming." 1975: Nobody could understand why anyone choose, in a time of raging democratic socialism and migrating panic-stricken middle-class Jamaicans, to leave the USA to go to Jamaica to teach. But for Anthony Winkler the reason was simple: he wanted to go home. This autobiographical account of the year that he spent at a ...
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By the Best Selling author of The Painted Canoe soon to be a major Motion Picture The Lunatic now a Motion Picture and The Great Yacht Race Anthony C. Winkler GOING HOME TO TEACH "Everyone going, and you coming." 1975: Nobody could understand why anyone choose, in a time of raging democratic socialism and migrating panic-stricken middle-class Jamaicans, to leave the USA to go to Jamaica to teach. But for Anthony Winkler the reason was simple: he wanted to go home. This autobiographical account of the year that he spent at a rural teacher training college flashes back to the Jamaica of the narrator's childhood, recounting incidents and vignettes that shed light on the muddle of competing personalities, doctrines and images of self currently vying for center stage in the tumult of Jamaican life. Emerging from the story are hilariously drawn characters, contrasts between the Jamaican and American outlook, and lessons about the perils of superimposing a foreign ideology onto a native culture. "I am a Jamaican writer, who by force of circumstances and luck, lives in the United States. I am keenly interested in the cultural chasm that exists between people of different countries, and I have mainly aimed my writing at that theme. Odd things always seem to be popping about me in the United States, and I must periodically run home to Jamaica for a taste of normalcy." -Anthony Winkler. '? Anthony Winkler is a man who lives and breathes the island's culture's and customs, speaks and writes in the musical rhythms of its language, understands the unending struggle for survival and dignity that is every Jamaican's lot." -Vincent Coppola, Atlanta Magazine Cover illustration: The Visit' by AlbertArtwell, reproduced with the permission of the Hardingham Collection. About the Author Anthony C. Winker was born in Kingston, Jamaica. He was educated at Mount Alvernia Academy then Corwall College in Montego Bay, and California State University in Los Angeles. He is the author of several textbooks in English and Public Speaking which are widely used in American colleges and universities. His first novel, The Painted Canoe, was published by Kingston Publishers in 1983, followed by The Lunatic in 1987 and The Great Yacht Race in 1992. American editions of the first two novels were published by Lyle Stuart in 1986 and 1987 respectively. All three novels met with international critical acclaim, and the movie The Lunatic was released in 1990. Mr. Winkler currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife and two children.
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