Muriella Pent_Smith
2006 Longlist

Muriella Pent

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

This post-colonial comedy is the story of what happens when Caribbean writer Marcus Royston, a worldly, Oxford-educated, jaded writer from the island of Saint Andrew’s finds himself sent to Canada on a cultural exchange, and lodged in the sprawling art nouveau mansion of middle-aged socialite Muriella Pent.

Royston’s motivations are self-preserving, hers are self-advancing, and both find themselves pawns of the politically motivated arts committee behind the exchange program. When two young university students — a boy and a girl who hate each other — are drawn into Royston’s fractious orbit, a decidedly unpleasant sexual competition occurs, and life in the leafy enclave of Stilwoode Park becomes more artistic than any of the exchange’s sponsors had ever hoped.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Russell
Smith

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
Canada
Original Language
English
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Canada

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