J'Ouvert Morning

Trinidad, West Indies: Columbus Publishers, 1976. First paperback edition. Signature-bound, [octavo], in illustrated wraps, 200 pp. Very good, wear to spine ends and edges, with some spotting to rear cover. Also known as Marion Glean, Marion O'Callaghan, and Marion Glean O'Callaghan, this is the author's second and last novel after Pan Beat was published in 1973. Former copy of literary critic and translator Robert[o] Marquez. Marion Patrick Jones was born in Trinidad and after attending an all-girls Convent in Port of Spain was admitted to St. Mary's College, now the St. Augustine section of the University of the West Indies. Then pursued graduate studies in London, 1959, where she was founding member of CARD (Campaign Against Racial Discrimination). 'J'Ouvert Morning explores the lives of the tormented Grant family in Woodbrook, a fusty suburb of Port of Spain...all of them seek refuge in failure...seek refuge in ultimately unrewarding shelters---drink and maudlin, unfulfilling religion for one, womanizing for another, a fashionable house in Ellerslie Park for a third, an ill-conceived, abortive revolution for yet another' (Fifty Caribbean Writers, Daryl Cumber Dance (Ed.)., 240).