It Falls into Place
the stories of Phyllis Shand Allfrey
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9780953222414
2004
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Fiction
Allfrey's delicate touch, discerning eye and a heart wise to the human condition animate these stories.
– Olive Senior
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About
It Falls Into Place brings together for the first time the shorter fiction of Phyllis Shand Allfrey whose novel The Orchid House is a classic of Caribbean literature.
These tantalising stories — set in Dominica, New York and London yet always steeped in an unmistakably West Indian identity — probe beneath the surface of colonial life, often drawing on autobiographical experience. Allfrey’s skill is to lead her characters — of different races and cultures — into unpredictable encounters where miracles can happen.
The introduction for It Falls Into Place is by Allfrey’s biographer, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert.
Author
Phyllis Shand Allfrey (1908-1986), author of Love for an Island, It Falls Into Place and The Orchid House, was born in Dominica, into a once wealthy planter family — like her compatriot and sometime friend Jean Rhys — and became a significant politician as well as a literary figure.
What They Say
Allfrey the artist and Allfrey the activist merge in this memorable collection of stories.
– David Dabydeen
The magical literary voice of the luscious island of Dominica….These marvellous stories are a pleasure.”
– Carmen Callil
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