{"product_id":"9780957118782","title":"Leaving by Plane Swimming Back Underwater","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis new collection of short stories from an award-winning writer explores a Caribbean world of yearnings and memory, of escape and return underpinned by the disturbing tensions wrought by religion, race, sexuality and crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSensuous and evocative, Scott’s prose has a glorious lightness of touch and tone that exhilarates and illuminates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A really accomplished writer. Lawrence Scott s last book is a delight\" - \u003cem\u003eDerek Walcott\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLawrence Scott\u003c\/strong\u003e is a prize-winning Caribbean novelist and short-story writer who was born on a sugar estate in Trinidad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe has been short-listed for Commonwealth writers’ prizes three times, long-listed for the Whitbread Prize and the Booker Prize and was winner of the Tom-Gallon Short Story Award. His latest novel is \u003cem\u003eLight Falling on Bamboo\u003c\/em\u003e (Profile Books, 9781781251584) about the 19th-century painter Jean Michel Cazabon. \u003cem\u003eLeaving by Plane Swimming Back Underwater\u003c\/em\u003e is his second short-story collection. He lives and works in both London and Port of Spain, Trinidad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Papillote Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49832560492784,"sku":"9780957118782","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780957118782","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}