THE DESPERATE CYCLE (Savant 2012) is Tony Tame's second dramatic novel of Jamaica, but the theme is not confined to Jamaican society. It examines the ways in which succeeding generations of people in what is loosely called "third world countries" handle, with courage, humor and resilience, the mountain of odds which history stacks against them.


This book does not treat any one participant in this "cycle" of inequality with particular distemper or sympathy. All the characters, from shifty polit...
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The Village Curtain is an amalgamated collection of fictional stories and sketches, populated with imaginary characters, set in the coastal communities of Jamaica. Considerable effort was made to realistically convey conditions and methods employed village fishermen observed by the author during more than forty years of experience in the field.  The pieces gradually introduce a range of “types” which frequently populate these sea front areas. Characters drift in and out of the narrative a...
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