Angel (Revised), Paperback/Merle Collins

First published in 1987, 'Angel' covers Grenada from 1951, when the workers revolted against the power of the white owners of the sugar and cocoa estates, to 1983 when the US invaded to put an end to a radical experiment that turned violently in on itself. About the Author Merle Collins is a professor of comparative literature and English at the University of Maryland. She is the author of "Angel," "Because the Dawn Breaks," "The Colour of Forgetting," "Rain Darling," and "Rotten Pomerack." Her critical works have appeared in "From My Guy to Sci-Fi: Genre and Women's Writing in the Postmodern World" and "Slavery and Abolition." Her literary work has appeared in "Penguin Modern Poets Volume 8" and "The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories."