In the Eye of the Storm: Edgar Mittelholzer - Critical Perspectives Format:Paperback to the thrill of lightning

to the thrill of lightning

he brings rare honesty to the discussion of a historiography that is adequate to the region’s diversity

funny and often poignant poetry

and now lives in Scarborough

one feels the pressure of integrity behind his writing

In the Eye of the Storm: Edgar Mittelholzer - Critical Perspectives Format:Paperback to the thrill of lightningIn the 1950s and early 1960s no Anglophone Caribbean novelist had a higher profile and was more praised than Edgar Mittelholzer. He was the first Caribbean writer to earn his living from writing and his earlier novels in particular found enthusiastic reviewers in the UK and USA. But after his suicide in 1965 his reputation sank and until Peepal Tree began republishing his earlier writing in 2007, for several decades, none of his books were in print.