Murders, scandals and the pursuit of forbidden pleasures may help to while the time away, but for Montego Bay's elite in the 1950s nothing is as important as the annual yacht race. Winkler interweaves the lives of five Montegonians: Fitzpatrick the barrister, Angwin the magistrate, O'Hara the hotelier, Biddle the reporter - all of whom will eventually compete in the race - and Father Huck, the American priest who ministers over them and tried his best to understand them, while battling with his own conflicts. In so doing, Winkler provides us with an affectionately satirical, hilarious view of a paranoid, hypocritical and eccentric colonialist society, during the twilight of its influence.
- ISBN10 1405068825
- ISBN13 9781405068826
- Publish Date 31 July 2006
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 3 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Macmillan Education
- Imprint Macmillan Caribbean
- Format Paperback
- Pages 432
- Language English