Corentyne Thunder Dorothy Baird playwright and painter

playwright and painter

and the scraps we are left with

Cosmic Dance won the 1994 Guyana Prize for Literature

The 1950s are often seen as the “grey decade”

‘The Wall’

Corentyne Thunder Dorothy Baird playwright and painterRamgolall, an old Indian cow minder, has punished himself to save money and has built a sizeable herd. His first daughter is the long established mistress of a well to do white planter. Their son, his grandson, Geoffry, light skinned and ambitious, seems destined for success. But when Geoffry becomes involved with Kattree, his daughter by a second marriage, Ramgolalls world begins to fall apart. This classic work of West Indian fiction, first