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Windward Heights
From: Black Issues Book Review
Date: 19990901
Author:Thomas, Sheree Renee
Soho Press, August 1999, 352 pp., $24.95, ISBN 1-56947-161-4.
In this commanding re-telling of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, prize-winning novelist Maryse Cond? takes the classic doomed love affair to her native islands of Guadeloupe and Cuba. In her characteristic lush prose, she offers a rare and complex portrait of 19th-century Caribbean society in the wake of emancipation.
In this dark tale, Rayz?, a foundling of unknown but decidedly "African" origins, falls in love with Cathy, the mulatto daughter of the man who raises him. Cruel treatment by his benefactor goads Rayz? into ...
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