Light Action in the Caribbean

Stories

Barry Lopez

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Vintage Books
15 October 2001

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories

Moving from fable and historical fiction to contemporary realism, this book of stories from Barry Lopez is erotic and wise, full of irresistible characters doing things they shouldn't do for reasons that are mysterious and irreducible.

In ""The Letters of Heaven,"" a packet of recently discovered 17th-century Peruvian love letters presents a 20th-century man with the paralyzing choice of either protecting or exposing their stunning secret. When some young boys on the lookout for easy money get caught with a truckload of stolen horses, thievery quickly turns into redemption. For a group of convicts, a gathering of birds in the prison yard may be the key to transcendence, both figurative and literal. And, with the title story, Lopez enters a territory of unmitigated evil reminiscent of Conrad. Here are saints who shouldn't touch, but do; sinners who insist on the life of the spirit; a postcard paradise that turns into nightmare.

Light Action in the Caribbean has already been hailed by Russell Banks as ""tough-minded, emotionally turbulent, and always intelligent."" E. Annie Proulx describes these stories as ""subtle and mysterious"" and says that a reader ""cannot leave Lopez's fictional territory unchanged."" This is a book that breaks exciting new ground for Barry Lopez.

By: Barry Lopez
Imprint: Vintage Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 174g
ISBN: 9780679754480
ISBN 10: 0679754482
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 15 October 2001
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print

Barry Lopez is the author of three collections of essays, including Horizon; several story collections; Arctic Dreams, for which he received the National Book Award; Of Wolves and Men, a National Book Award finalist; and Crow and Weasel, a novella-length fable. He contributed regularly to both American and foreign journals and traveled to more than seventy countries to conduct research. He was the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan, and National Science Foundations and was honored by a number of institutions for his literary, humanitarian, and environmental work. He died in 2020. www.barrylopez.com

Reviews for Light Action in the Caribbean: Stories

"""Lopez is one of our finest writers."" --Los Angeles Times Book Review ""In each story the familiar world is transformed in a dramatic or magical moment."" --The Oregonian ""This is a collection of subtle and mysterious stories... The reader cannot leave Lopez?s fictional territory unchanged."" --Annie Proulx"