![]() ![]() ![]() Writing with lively verve and poignant melancholy ![]() Since adolescence, he has been madly in love with Morris, his lover. “In all honesty, I can say to my wife, ‘Honey, I’ve never slept with another woman.’ » His painful secret is quite different. » His conviction: Barry is an abject womanizer. “Head of a woman, body of a lioness, wings of an eagle, memory of an elephant, jaw of a saltwater crocodile with a kilo of pressure per square centimeter, ready to rip my head off. No matter how hard he tries to sneak home in the early morning, he inevitably wakes up Carmel, asleep in their comfortable London home. Barry likes nothing more than to roam the bars, happily chatting about literature, philosophy and the world as it goes with Morris, his old lifelong friend, as sober as himself is thirsty. The Booker Prize to Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristoīut the couple also has endless disputes to their credit. From their five decades of marriage, were born Donna and Maxine, now in their forties, the first rigid and responsible, the second creative and whimsical. After a childhood and youth in Antigua, they left their Caribbean island together to go to work in London. Translated from English by Françoise Adelstainīarrington Jedidiah Walker, known as Barry, and his wife Carmel have a lot in common. ![]()
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