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 First US edition | |
| Author | Robert Antoni |
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| Publisher | Henry Holt |
Publication date | 1997 |
| Publication place | Trinidad and Tobago |
| Pages | 399 |
| ISBN | 0-8050-4925-8 |
| OCLC | 44820758 |
Blessed Is the Fruit is a novel by Robert Antoni. Published in 1997 by Henry Holt, it explores the fluid boundaries of race in the Caribbean.
Betsy Willeford, writing in the The Miami Herald , found that while the books was "both earthy and litary", the "use of symbol and portent blocks out the rader's view" of the characters. [1] James Polk, of The Philadelphia Inquirer , on the other hand, found that "[f]or all its difficulty, for all its surface impenetrability" the book told "a simple story, and told "it very well indeed". [2]
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