Stranger at the GateSet in a colonial Caribbean country in the post war years, Stranger at the Gate has the narrative drive of a Hemingway novel, the ominous sense of fate of classical Greek tragedy, a sensuous appreciation of a landscape, domestic interiors and food that draws on Hearnes own Jamaica, and an acute, if indulgent, portrayal of the white and light brown landed and commercial elite. Stranger at the Gate was originally published in 1956 by Faber and Faber,

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