Books by Pauline Melville and Complete Book Reviews

The Ventriloquist's Tale
The Ventriloquist's Tale
Pauline Melville, Author Bloomsbury Publishing PLC $23.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-58234-009-8
In Melville's ambitious and richly realized debut set in modern-day Guyana, religious, social and philosophical tensions beset all the characters. Two illicit love affairs are the vertebrae of an absorbing story set against the background of...
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Migration of Ghosts
Migration of Ghosts
Pauline Melville, Author Bloomsbury Publishing PLC $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-58234-020-3
A magnificent sense of pacing is the first of Melville's skills that impresses the reader of this mesmerizing collection. The second is her gift for voices: like the brightly plumaged title character in ""The Parrot and Descartes,"" she has an...
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Shape Shifter
Shape Shifter
Pauline Melville, Author, Renee Klock, Editor Pantheon Books $19 (164p) ISBN 978-0-679-40438-5
In this startling debut collection, which won England's prestigious Guardian Prize, hard-luck Londoners and Caribs find themselves and their environs in a state of metamorphosis. In ``The Conversion of Millicent Vernon,'' a West Indian teenager...
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