Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Hurricanes

0/5 ( ratings)

Hurricanes is a collection of letters and essays about the human experience of hurricanes. Two of the writers, the teacher Donna Tiapula and the poet John Enright, wrote to friends and relatives during the Samoan hurricanes of 1990 and 1991. Jerome Gold, novelist and anthropologist, provides a moving evocation of Samoa before the destruction and a later glimpse of the impact these storms made. Award-winning essayist Marilyn Stablein's thoughts on Galveston's experience of Hurricane Alicia off a view of the relationship between the destruction outside ourselves and the fear of chaos within. From Donna Tiapula's letter: The sea is hard to describe. Usually it is such a beautiful deep blue & now it is green and ugly...Two small homes have been destroyed, gone totally. The bay is filled with waves on the reef 20 to 30 ft. tall. Not one or two waves, but 100's an hour.... It is really blowing now.... Wind is fierce. We cannot see the bay, rain and wind obstruct the view.... I am so scared. My stomach aches. I am angry...

Language: English

Pages: 100

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Black Heron Press

Release: April 19, 1995

ISBN: 093077325X

ISBN 13: 9780930773250

Hurricanes

0/5 ( ratings)

Hurricanes is a collection of letters and essays about the human experience of hurricanes. Two of the writers, the teacher Donna Tiapula and the poet John Enright, wrote to friends and relatives during the Samoan hurricanes of 1990 and 1991. Jerome Gold, novelist and anthropologist, provides a moving evocation of Samoa before the destruction and a later glimpse of the impact these storms made. Award-winning essayist Marilyn Stablein's thoughts on Galveston's experience of Hurricane Alicia off a view of the relationship between the destruction outside ourselves and the fear of chaos within. From Donna Tiapula's letter: The sea is hard to describe. Usually it is such a beautiful deep blue & now it is green and ugly...Two small homes have been destroyed, gone totally. The bay is filled with waves on the reef 20 to 30 ft. tall. Not one or two waves, but 100's an hour.... It is really blowing now.... Wind is fierce. We cannot see the bay, rain and wind obstruct the view.... I am so scared. My stomach aches. I am angry...

Language: English

Pages: 100

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Black Heron Press

Release: April 19, 1995

ISBN: 093077325X

ISBN 13: 9780930773250

More books from Jerome Gold

The Forty Fathom Bank and Other Stories

Paranoia & Heartbreak: Fifteen Years in a Juvenile Facility

Sergeant Dickinson

4.2/5 ( ratings)

In the Spider's Web

3.1/5 ( ratings)

Publishing Lives: Interviews with Independent Book Publishers in the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Moral Life of Soldiers: A novel and five stories

4.3/5 ( ratings)

The Prisoner's Son: Homage to Anthony Burgess

3.3/5 ( ratings)

In Georgia: A Yankee Family in the Segregated South

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Of Great Spaces

3.3/5 ( ratings)

The Forty Fathom Bank and Other Stories

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?