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The Lunatic

By: Anthony C. Winkler

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The Lunatic

By: Anthony C. Winkler

The first-ever US publication of this Caribbean classic upon which a feature film by the same title is based.

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Akashic Books

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1933354291

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9781933354293

God Carlos

By: Anthony C. Winkler

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This tragicomic novel set in sixteenth-century Jamaica is a “gusty, boisterous, [and] entertaining . . . slice of historical fiction” (Alan Cheuse, NPR, All Things Considered). Winner of the 2014 Townsend Prize for Fiction A fortune-seeking band of ragtag sailors travel aboard the Santa Inez, a Spanish vessel bound for the newly discovered West Indies. She is an unusual explorer for her day, carrying no provisions for the settlers and no seed for planting crops, and manned by vain, arrogant men looking for gold in Jamaica. The crew expects to make landfall in paradise after over a month at sea. Meanwhile, the timid, innocent Arawaks—who walk around stark naked without embarrassment and who venerate their own customs and worship their own gods—think these newcomers must have come from heaven. The ensuing entanglement of culture, custom, and beliefs makes for a “comic, tragic, bawdy, sad, and provocative” novel (Library Journal). “Darkly irreverent . . . With a sharp tongue, Winkler, a native of Jamaica, deftly imbues this blackly funny satire with an exposé of colonialism’s avarice and futility.” —Publishers Weekly “Well-written . . . Winkler’s descriptions of sea and sky as seen from a sailing ship, and of the physical beauty of Jamaica, are spot-on and breathtaking.” —Historical Novel Review “A thoroughly engaging adventure story from a renowned Jamaican author, sure to enchant readers who treasure a fabulous tale exquisitely rendered.” —Library Journal “Every country (if she’s lucky) gets the Mark Twain she deserves, and Winkler is ours.” —Marlon James, author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf

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Akashic Books

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1617751413

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9781617751417

The Family Mansion

By: Anthony C. Winkler

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The Family Mansion

By: Anthony C. Winkler

After attempting to kill his brother for his inheritance, twenty-three-year-old Hartley Fudges flees from England to Jamaica where he takes a job as an overseer at a sugar cane plantation during the height of the slave trade.

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Akashic Books

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1617751669

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9781617751660

Dog War

By: Anthony C. Winkler

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Dog War

By: Anthony C. Winkler

After Precious Higginson's husband suddenly passes away, she is forced to move in with her son, then her daughter, and on from there, always finding herself in one insulting situation after another.

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Akashic Books

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1933354283

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9781933354286

The Duppy

By: Anthony C. Winkler

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The Duppy

By: Anthony C. Winkler

Oddball sexuality, acts of perversion, and out-of-order behavior from the acclaimed Jamaican author of The Lunatic and Dog War.

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Akashic Books

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193335433X

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9781933354330

The Family Mansion

A Novel

By: Anthony C. Winkler

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The Family Mansion

A Novel

By: Anthony C. Winkler

A darkly comic novel of an Englishman in nineteenth-century Jamaica: “A powerful and deeply moving tour de force” (Library Journal). The Family Mansion tells the story of Hartley Fudges, whose personal destiny unfolds against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Britain, a time when English society was based upon the strictest subordination and stratification of the classes. Hartley’s decision to migrate to Jamaica at the age of twenty-three seems sensible at first: in the early 1800s Jamaica was far and away the richest and most opulent of all the crown colonies. But for all its fabulous wealth, Jamaica was a difficult and inhospitable place for an immigrant. Aside from violent slave revolts, newcomers had to survive the nemesis of the white man in the tropics—namely, yellow fever. From the author of God Carlos, who writes with “a genuine fondness for this complicated and conflicted place,” this is a riveting work of historical fiction filled with a blend of sadness and sly humor (Publishers Weekly). “Winkler submits imperialist dogma and the English aristocracy’s casual acceptance of violence and cruelty to punishing satirical critique. He takes special pleasure in redefining the idea of the ‘English gentleman,’ embodied by his clueless and spoiled protagonist, Hartley Fudges, a terrifically rendered young English aristocrat who gets himself banished to Jamaica after attempting to kill his brother for his inheritance . . . Essential reading for fans of literary fiction.” —Library Journal

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Akashic Books

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161775174X

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9781617751745

Dog War

By: Anthony C. Winkler

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Dog War

By: Anthony C. Winkler

A novel of a Jamaican woman’s adventures, from an author with “a fine ear for patois and dialogue, and a love of language that makes bawdy jokes crackle” (The New Yorker). “An acclaimed comic novelist in his native Jamaica, Winkler makes a long overdue American debut with this laugh riot. His heroine is Precious Higginson, a Christian Jamaican woman of 47 whose conventional worldview and proud, pious manner make her unintentionally funny. After her husband dies unexpectedly, Precious moves in with her son and his wife, but pudding-loving Precious and her health-nut daughter-in-law quickly turn the house into a war zone. It’s off to America then to stay with her daughter, a Miami police officer, and her hairdressing husband, Henry . . . After Henry makes a pass, Precious takes a job as live-in housekeeper at a Fort Lauderdale mansion. There, she cares for a spoiled dog, Riccardo; argues with Riccardo’s animal rights zealot owner, Mistress Lucy, who declares Precious ‘speciest’ for failing to appreciate it when Riccardo pees on her new shoes . . . Precious learns much about the limits of piety as the indignities mount and her beliefs are challenged in increasingly outrageous ways. Winkler’s wit, his ear for dialect and the sublime creation that is Precious add up to one howlingly funny book.” —Publishers Weekly

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Akashic Books

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1617750875

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9781617750878

Writing the Research Paper

A Handbook with Both the MLA and APA Documentation Styles

By: Anthony C. Winkler,Jo Ray McCuen

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Writing the Research Paper

A Handbook with Both the MLA and APA Documentation Styles

By: Anthony C. Winkler,Jo Ray McCuen

Writing the Research Paper is an easily accessible research paper guide that can be used by students throughout their college career and beyond.

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Wadsworth Publishing Company

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ISBN 10

0155084402

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9780155084407

The Prentice Hall Pocket Guide for Writers

By: Anthony C. Winkler

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The Prentice Hall Pocket Guide for Writers

By: Anthony C. Winkler

A little rhetoric with the briefest coverage of what readers must know to write an essay.

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Prentice Hall

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013309717X

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9780133097177

The Lunatic

By: Anthony C. Winkler

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The Lunatic

By: Anthony C. Winkler

The first-ever US publication of this Caribbean classic upon which a feature film by the same title is based.

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Writing Talk Paragraphs

By: Anthony C. Winkler,Jo Ray McCuen

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Writing Talk Paragraphs

By: Anthony C. Winkler,Jo Ray McCuen

A skills-based writing text that takes students through the steps of the writing process so that they can create solid paragraphs and essays. provides a variety of exercises to help students develop good writing and editing skills.

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0134348877

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Reading, Writing, and the Humanities

By: Jo Ray McCuen,Anthony C. Winkler

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Reading, Writing, and the Humanities

By: Jo Ray McCuen,Anthony C. Winkler

Reading, Writing, and the Humanities is organized around eight classic, enduring thems and features extensive reading and writing for students. In selecting philosophy, history, and literature as the primary categories for grouping the readings, this text reatined this early meaning of humanitries as consisting of subjects whose emphasis is mainly human-centered. Our chapter titles are variations on some profound and timeless questions that writers and thinkers in the humanities have grappled with for centuries, while the subtitles declare the underlying issue that is the featured theme. Reading, Writing and the Humanities will stir awake the analytical and critical minds of students.

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Heinle & Heinle Publishers

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0155755129

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9780155755123

The Duppy

By: Anthony C. Winkler

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The Duppy

By: Anthony C. Winkler

“Every country (if she’s lucky) gets the Mark Twain she deserves, and Winkler is ours, bristling with savage Jamaican wit” (Marlon James). Being dead is most definitely an impediment to writing a book, under ordinary circumstances. But the narrator of this novel, Taddeus Augustus Baps, has turned into a duppy—a ghost renowned in Caribbean folklore—and he has a story to tell. At first, he thinks that his new status as a spirit will provide some mischievous fun, but he’s in for disappointment. He gets whisked off to heaven—via minibus—where he meets not only God but some other interesting characters, and finds that the afterlife can be more irritating than one might expect . . . This smart, rollicking, and ultimately uplifting tale is a delight from the prize-winning author of The Lunatic and other comic novels. As The Independent said of Anthony Winkler’s work, “It’s almost as if P. G. Wodehouse had strolled into the world of Bob Marley.”

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1617750484

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9781617750489

The Painted Canoe

By: Anthony Winkler

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The Painted Canoe

By: Anthony Winkler

You learn dat dis world don't love negar! And negar don't make for dis world!" Zachariah's mother warned him when he was still a boy. Yet, poor and abominably ugly, the Jamaican fisherman grasps lovingly for life, though the worst forces of nature conspire against him. Washed far out to sea in the night, Zachariah is attacked by a hammerhead shark, scorched by the Caribbean sun, hurled about by the sea which both frightens and entices him, and confused by his own encroaching madness. In a rare weave of humor and sadness, Zachariah forces himself to reflect on his life and the strangeness of chance, on anything but his place as a small man in a fragile boat in the boundless sea. Still on land are the villagers, the woman, and the sons who comprise life for Zachariah. While he struggles with the forces of nature, the natural faith of the villagers encounters the incapacity for belief of the troubled English doctor. As the superstitions and certainties of Jamaican life and the consequences of science meet, Winkler reveals a rich understanding of the precarious balance between thought and reality, between the coincidental and the miraculous. "This is one of those rare novels that announces its presence with such modest grace that the size of its ambition and accomplishments steals gently into the consciousness."—Michael Thelwell, Washington Post Book World "Mr. Winkler deftly unfurls his exquisitely written story, which is redolent of the colorful patois and chaotic flavor of rural Jamaican culture."—Bob Allen, Baltimore Sun

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University of Chicago Press

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0226902064

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9780226902067

God Carlos

By: Anthony C. Winkler

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God Carlos

By: Anthony C. Winkler

God Carlos transports the reader to a voyage aboard the Santa Inez, a Spanish sailing vessel bound for the newly-discovered West Indies with an arrogant bunch of gold-seekers. When they arrive they find no gold; only a merciless climate that nurtures deadly disease. There are also the Arawaks, a native tribe who believed the Europeans had come from heaven. This impossible entanglement of culture, custom and beliefs ultimately ends in doom. Written by acclaimed Jamaican author Anthony C. Winkler, God Carlos is a gripping tale that virtually pulls readers into the story.

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Akashic Books

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1617751391

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9781617751394

The Painted Canoe

By: Anthony C. Winkler

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The Painted Canoe

By: Anthony C. Winkler

By the author of The Lunatic The Great Yacht Race Going Home to Teach Anthony C. Winkler THE PAINTED CANOE "You soon reach home. You soon reach home. You soon reach home." And, saying this quietly to himself, he began to cry ?? And after he was through crying, his heart began to hunger, because he was alone in the painted canoe and surrounded by the layered immensities of the sea, the darkness and the stars. Zachariah was just a simple, poor, ugly fisherman. But he was exceptionally stubborn. Even though he knew he was tired, his stubbornness made him go to sea. And when he found he was lost, his stubbornness made him refuse to give up hope. And when the elements conspired against him, his stubbornness made him refuse to die. "?..This is one of those rare novels that announces its presence with such modest grace that the size of its ambition and accomplishment steals gently into the consciousness." -Michael Thelwell, Washington Post Book World "?..An exquisitely written story, which is redolent of the colourful patois and chaotic flavour of rural Jamaican culture, and which, at heart, is an even richer exploration of the triumph of folk wisdom and simple faith over cold scientific cynicism." - Bob Allen, The Sun Cover illustration: "City of Africa" by Albert Artwell, reproduced with the permission of the National Gallery of Jamaica. About the Author Anthony C. Winkler was born in Kingston, Jamaica. He was educated at Mount Alvernia Academy then Cornwall College in Montego Bay, and California State University in Los Angeles. He is the author of several textbooks in English and Public Speaking which are widely used in American colleges and universities. His first novel, The Painted Canoe,was published by Kingston Publishers in 1983, followed by The Lunatic in 1987 and The Great Yacht Race in 1992. American editions of the first two novels were published by the Lyle Stuart in 1986 and 1987 respectively. All three novels met with international critical acclaim, and the movie The Lunatic was released in 1990. Mr. Winkler currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife and two children.

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