Publisher's Synopsis
The "Longman Caribbean Writers" comprises many classic novels, short stories and plays by the best known Caribbean authors, together with works of the highest quality from new writers.;"Satellite City" is a collection of short stories set in Jamaica. Mckenzie represents a new generation of writers moving away from Jamaica's colonial times to themes of conflict between generations; sexual politics and gender expectations; class, wealth and poverty; language, politics and power, art and racial tensions. Mckenzie explores Caribbean history through relationsips and highlights the hypocrisies and evasions of Jamaican contemporary society.