Tide running

Oonya Kempadoo

first published 2001 Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2003 215 pages

"Cliff and Ossi have grown up in Plymouth on the island of Tobago, their lives turning on the axis of small-town life: young men fooling outside Masta Barbar's shop, gangsta rap blasting; Baywatch and Oprey Winfree interrupted by frantic street calls from the preachers; a morning's fishing - and sex.". "One day they watch the arrival of a couple - Bella, a Caribbean woman, and Peter, an Englishman - and their child...

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Editions we hold

Tide running edition · 2004 · Beacon Press · 215 pages
Mar De Fondo paperback · 2004 · Cubanas Ediciones · 209 pages · 9789592600645
Tide Running edition · 2003 · Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 9781429998796
Tide running edition · 2003 · Farrar, Straus, Giroux · 215 pages
Tide Running edition · 2002 · Picador · 9780330482530
Tide running edition · 2001 · Picador · 201 pages

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