Dog War (Anthony C. Winkler Collection) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Dog War (Anthony C. Winkler Collection) Saturday, August 1 2009.

• In a new and highly original take on Jamaican life, Winkler, the Caribbean's unrivalled master of adult comedy, introduces the estimable Precious Higginson, a large-bottomed, meltingly juicy, middle-class Jamaican woman with unshakable ideas on the right and proper behavior for Christian Jamaican women, their husbands, and men and dogs in general. But, when her husband passes away suddenly, Precious finds herself isolated in a mountainous region of Jamaica where her husband had always dreamed of living. Even worse, she finds her conventional world and her place in it coming apart--her ideas on proper behavior assailed on every side. One insulting episode after another occurs until she ends up in Miami working for a rich widow who is a fanatic about animals in general and her pampered lapdog in particular. With the indignities of life piling up on her, Precious struggles to make sense of the world she had lived in before her husband's death and to defend herself against monstrous assaults on her conventional beliefs. The climax of the story leaves Precious reeling, and sends her scurrying back home to evaluate this topsy-turvy madhouse called life and her place in it.Ê

Shelfari edited the contributors of Dog War (Anthony C. Winkler Collection) Saturday, July 25 2009.

• Added a contributor: Anthony C. Winkler: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Dog War (Anthony C. Winkler Collection) Friday, July 17 2009.

• "Lawd, I beg you, don't drop a tin can 'pon me head today!"