Last Cool Days - Softcover

?ohn Stewart draws a painful and all too credible picture of the squalor and injustice endured by the black community? ?The Times Literary Supplement ?he atmosphere and insight displayed in this book make it a considerable achievement.? ?n impressive work, rich in symbolism and levels of meaning.? ?MERLE HODGE ?is poetry, prose and history told with the beauty, the sensitivity and the feeling typical of the West Indian novel that is no longer written.?

?John Stewart draws a painful and all too credible picture of the squalor and injustice endured by the black community The Times Literary Supplement The atmosphere and insight displayed in this book make it a considerable achievement.? ? The Irish Times An impressive work, rich in symbolism and levels of meaning.? MERLE HODGE is poetry, prose and history told with the beauty, the sensitivity and the feeling typical of the West Indian novel that is no longer written.? ?The Toronto Review

"John Stewart draws a painful and all too credible picture of the squalor and injustice endured by the black community..." - The Times Literary Supplement "The atmosphere and insight displayed in this book make it a considerable achievement." - The Irish Times "An impressive work, rich in symbolism and levels of meaning." - MERLE HODGE ..".is poetry, prose and history told with the beauty, the sensitivity and the feeling typical of the West Indian novel that is no longer written." - The Toronto Review

Set in colonial Trinidad, this powerfully intense novel explores the barriers between black and white in a highly stratified and racially demarcated society.
Marcus is a young black village boy who gets fatefully attracted by the strangeness and the privileges of white children in his neighborhood and is befriended by the English overseer's son Anthony. The awkwardness and instability of this relationship in time reinforce his sense of insecurity and alienation, instilling in him an adult rage that leads ultimately to tragedy.