The Pirate's Daughter (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781932961409)

"Back in America, little was known of my life in Jamaica," wrote Errol Flynn.

In 1946, a storm-wrecked boat carrying Hollywood's most famous swashbuckler shored up on the coast of Jamaica, and the glamorous world of 1940's Hollywood converged with that of a small West Indian society. After a long and storied career on the silver screen, Errol Flynn spent much of the last years of his life on a small island off of Jamaica, throwing parties and sleeping with increasingly younger teenaged girls. Based on those years, The Pirate's Daughter is the story of Ida, a local girl who has an affair with Flynn that produces a daughter, May, who meets her father but once.

Spanning two generations of women whose destinies become inextricably linked with the matinee idol's, this lively novel tells the provocative history of a vanished era, of uncommon kinships, compelling attachments, betrayal and atonement in a paradisal, tropical setting. As adept with Jamaican vernacular as she is at revealing the internal machinations of a fading and bloated matinee idol, Margaret Cezair-Thompson weaves a saga of a mother and daughter finding their way in a nation struggling to rise to the challenge of independence.

Author: Margaret Cezair-Thompson
ISBN-10: 1932961402
ISBN-13: 9781932961409
Publisher: Unbridled Books
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2007
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.58lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.40w x 1.34d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/06/2007 pg. 167
Library Journal 09/01/2007 pg. 126
New York Times Book Review 10/28/2007 pg. 27
People Weekly 11/05/2007 pg. 51
Multicultural Review 12/01/2007 pg. 52
Foreword 11/01/2007 pg. 1
School Library Journal 01/01/2008 pg. 156