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| TITLE: |
Cricket in the Road and other stories |
| AUTHOR: |
Michael Anthony |
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| INTRODUCTION
TO THE BOOK |
These tales are told with the freshness and directness one has come to expect of Michael Anthony. They are all set in Trinidad and include an introduction by the author.
In his introduction to this complete collection Michael Anthony says that he started writing stories as the reuslt of a competition in a Trinidad newspaper. 'What was new and refreshing to me was the treatment of local themes and the use of the local idiom. It made literature look 'real' to me... 'My main desire was always to write about something I actually knew and experienced, and, belonging as I do to Mayaro, it was only natural that most of my stories should be set there, although all of them have been written in England. There are only two stories set in San Fernando - 'nchanted Alley', and 'The Day of the Fearless' - although I spent a childhood year and many of my adolescent years there. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Michael Anthony was born in Mayaro in 1932. He went to school there and later to the Junior Technical School, San Fernando. He worked as a moulder in an iron foundry at Pointe à Pierre, Trinidad, until he went to England in 1955, where he worked in factories, for the railways and as a telegraphist. Before the publication of his first novel in 1963, The Games Were Coming, he was already known as a contributor of stories to the West Indian Literary Magazine, BIM. |
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