Title: The Man Who Loved Attending Funerals and Other Stories
Author: Frank Collymore
Publisher: Heinemann
Year: 1993
Country: Barbados
178 pages
Barbados. Marl-hole = clay-digging hole. Dunk = jujube. BG = British Guiana. B'adian = Barbadian. Epergne = a form of multi-branched centerpiece, but I should know that.
Collymore's short story style isn't to my taste. The tone of most of the stories could be characterized as "suspense lite," sometimes shading into what would be horror if it weren't predictable. The pleasure in these stories isn't in theie plots, which abound with dead spouses, murders, angst, and light supernatural touches, but in the details of class and race relations in Barbados in the mid-20th century.
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