All that glitters

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Jacket front illustration shows golden chains in front of an island landscape with palm trees, water and a golden moon in a dark sky.

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Notes:: Pedro Lopez designed the book jacket. Michael Anthony (b.1930) is a prolific writer of novels, short stories and poetry. All That Glitters is a first person novel told by a thirteen year-old boy, in the mode of an initiation into life narrative. Horace discovers the destructive forces of greed through the theft of a gold necklace. The arrival of an aunt whose employment in the Panama Canal Zone earned her considerable wealth has caused a stir in the small fishing village where Horace lives with his family. The necklace is stolen from his home while his aunt is a guest and helping to track down the culprit becomes an important lesson in human behavior for him. Among Anthony's later work, this novel maintains a familiar consistent focus on the solidity of the community and the family, even as non-traditional. A character who returns "here to Trinidad" from Panama with a considerable amount of money given the local economy occurs occasionally in mid-century Caribbean novels, chronicling the economic and social impact of the building of the Canal on those from the eastern Caribbean who went as laborers. See notably the Haitian novelist, Jacques Roumans, Gouveneurs de la rosée, (translated by Langston Hughes as Masters of the Dew).