Book of Jamaica
By Russell Banks
(Harper Perennial, Paperback, 9780060977078, 352pp.)
Publication Date: May 1996
Other Editions of This Title: Mass Market Paperback
Categories: Literary
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Banks explores the complexities of political life in the Caribbean.
Russell Banks is one of Americas most prestigious fiction writers, a past president of the International Parliament of Writers, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous prizes and awards, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize. He lives in upstate New York and Miami, Florida.











