AWC: Dog War HB

Anthony Winkler author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Macmillan Education

Published:31st Jul '06

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

AWC: Dog War HB cover

In a new and highly original take on Jamaican life, Winkler, the Caribbean's unrivalled master of adult comedy, introduces the estimable Precious, a large-bottomed, meltingly juicy Christian Jamaican woman with unshakeable ideas on the right and proper behaviour for Christian Jamaican women, their husbands, and men and dogs in general. But when her husband dies unexpectedly, Precious finds her ideas on proper behaviour assailed on every side, first in Kingston with her unwelcoming daughter-in-law, and then in Miami with her guntoting daughter. Precious spends many hours under her bed, checking proprieties with Jamaican Jesus, and on top of her bed, checking improprieties with the factotum Mannish, who is suffering the penalties of stealing camels in a previous life. Obliged to get a job as a dog-maid, however, Precious is outraged to discover that most improper of all are the attentions of her mistress's preposterously pampered pet, Riccardo.

"I would advise anyone who wants a good laugh and some deep thoughts about religion and human hypocrisy to buy a copy of the novel. It would be money well spent." Kevin Baldeosingh, The Independent (Trinidad)"

ISBN: 9781405070645

Dimensions: 204mm x 134mm x 19mm

Weight: 303g

200 pages