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  • City stricken to the bone
  • Hurricanes ; Social classes ; City and town life
  • The author presents a microcosm of city life including : “wealthy bourgeoisie” who lives uptown; the “ pale stenographer in the administrative office; men and women living in “teeming shacks”; and “the… vice-ridden, violent myrmidons and the poor...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Let us walk among our wild oats
  • Love stories ; Man-woman relationships
  • Dennis finds himself reliving scenes and events from his past life including his relationships with women - Eileen with whom he had a special bond, and her sister Ann, whom he fell in love with but never married. The mix of memories about the two...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Enter through this door
  • Historical fiction
  • The author presents vignettes of life ---good and bad-- from the different social strata in Jamaica of the 1930s and the vision of an aspiring politician who recognizes that national development will only come, like childbirth, through much ...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Hurricane
  • Historical fiction
  • The hurricane sweeping over the land not only destroys Crawford’s banana plantation but also unleashes destruction in his family as he learns of his daughter falling in love with the young overseer at Severn. This unwelcome development and the loss...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Man with a load of music
  • Music
  • Rastus was born with music in his soul and spent most of his time dreaming, thinking, writing and playing music. The villagers never understood his musical genius but instead saw him as a lazy, shiftless person and treated him as such until his...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Second goodbyes are unlucky
  • Love stories
  • Bruce found it very hard to say goodbye to Anna as he prepared to leave for a new life in the city. So many words, so many thoughts unspoken as he scanned Anna’s face for signs that his intense love for her was returned, but she seemed indifferent...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Swing low, sweet chariot
  • City and town life
  • Amidst the haunting melody of the song "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot", the author presents a series of snapshots of the bitter-sweetness of everyday life in the city - people trying to escape their aloneness, people loving, hating, dying – in their...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • West Indian Sportsman 1963 Vol.18 no. 2
  • Sports-Periodicals; Sports-Caribbean Area; Sports-Social aspects; Polo-Caribbean Area; Track and field-Tournaments-Jamaica; Horse racing-Legal aspects-Jamaica; Stadiums-Jamaica;Swimming-Jamaica; Yatching-Jamaica; Dog shows; Jamaica Broadcasting...
  • Sports journal of the Caribbean. It provides news, analysis, commentaries and updates on many sports including cricket, football, tennis and more.
  • West Indian Sportsman
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  • West Indian Sportsman 1963 Vol. 18 no 3
  • Sports-Periodicals; Sports-Caribbean Area; Sports-Social aspects; Sports-Political aspects-Jamaica; Pan American Games (4th:1963:Sao Paulo, Brazil); Cricket-West Indies; Tennis-Political aspects-Jamaica; Jamaica-Social life and customs
  • Sports journal of the Caribbean. It provides news, analysis, commentaries and updates on many sports including cricket, football, tennis and more.
  • West Indian Sportsman

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