Swimming in the volcano

Bob Shacochis

first published 1993 Grove Press, 2004 517 pages

Winner of the American Book Award for his collection of stories Easy in the Islands and the Prix de Rome for The Next New World, Bob Shacochis returns to the islands with a first novel possessed of the same beauty as the places and people of the Caribbean. The volcano at the heart of the island of St. Catherine has smoldered as ominously and impotently as its politics for years, but lately things seem to be heating u...

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Swimming in the Volcano edition · 2007 · Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated · 9780802199317
Swimming in the volcano edition · 2004 · Grove Press · 517 pages
Swimming in the Volcano edition · 1994 · Penguin (Non-Classics) · 528 pages · 9780140236583
Swimming In The Volcano hardcover · 1993 · Scribner · 528 pages · 9780330331876
Swimming in the volcano edition · 1993 · Scribner's Sons · 519 pages

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