{"product_id":"no-telephone-to-heaven-isbn-9780452275690","title":"No Telephone to Heaven","description":"\u003cb\u003eA brilliant Jamaican-American writer takes on the themes of colonialism, race, myth, and political awakening.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eOriginally published in 1987, this critically acclaimed novel is the continuation of the story that began in \u003ci\u003eAbeng\u003c\/i\u003e following Clare Savage, a mixed-race woman who returns to her Jamaican homeland after years away. In this deeply poetic novel, Clare must make sense of her middle-class childhood memories in contrast with another side of Jamaica which she is only now beginning to see: one of extreme poverty. And Jamaica—almost a character in the book—comes to life with its extraordinary beauty, coexisting with deep human tragedy.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eThrough the course of the book, Clare sees the violence that rises out of extreme oppression, the split loyalties of a colonized person, and what it means to be neither white nor Black in that environment. The result is a deeply moving, canonical work.\"The beauty and authority of her writing is coupled in a rare way with profound insight.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Toni Morrison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Mesmerizing … possesses the incantatory power of poetry.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Structurally ambitious and innovative, making tangible through its form a vivid, spiraling tension between past and present … a triumph of artistic integration, a hard-won harmony between the political and the personal, between realism and the mysteries of the spirit.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"I am in awe of Michelle Cliff's achievement.  The work is lyrical, intelligent, full of a moral passion kept taut and spare and absolutley unsentimental.  The range of her knowledge, insight, and compassion is astonishing.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Janette Turner Hospital\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"A tour de force.  I very much admire what she does with language, and the fact that she's struggling with central issues of our time.  A powerful book, truly a stupendous achievement: the complex sense of Jamaica with its anguish and its beauty.  In her generation, Cliff is rare and is already distinguished as a writer of great substance and power.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Tillie Olsen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichelle Cliff\u003c\/b\u003e (1946-2016) was a Jamaican-American author whose writing explored colonialism and racism. Her body of work includes novels, \u003ci\u003eAbeng\u003c\/i\u003e, its sequel, \u003ci\u003eNo Telephone to Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFree Enterprise\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eInto the Interior\u003c\/i\u003e; short story collections, \u003ci\u003eThe Store of a Million Items\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBodies of Water\u003c\/i\u003e; and poetry collections, \u003ci\u003eThe Land of Look Behind\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eClaiming an Identity They Taught Me to Despise\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Plume","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299820556517,"sku":"NP9780452275690","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780452275690.jpg?v=1767733833","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/no-telephone-to-heaven-isbn-9780452275690","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}