Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays.

First Edition of Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays; Signed by Him

Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays.

WALCOTT, Derek.

Item Number: 53018

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed and dated by Derek Walcott in 1978 on the half-title page. In very good condition.

On a Caribbean island, the morning after a full moon, Felix Hobain tears through the market in a drunken rage. Taken away to sober up in jail, all that night he is gripped by hallucinations: the impoverished hermit believes he has become a healer, walking from village to village, tending to the sick, waiting for a sign from God. In this dream, his one companion, Moustique, wants to exploit his power. Moustique decides to impersonate a prophet himself, ignoring a coffin-maker who warns him he will die and enraging the people of the island. Hobain, half-awake in his desolate jail cell, terrorized by the specter of his friend's corruption, clings to his visionary quest. He will try to transform himself; to heal Moustique, his jailer, and his jail-mates; and to be a leader for his people. Dream on Monkey Mountain was awarded the 1971 Obie Award for a Distinguished Foreign Play when it was first presented in New York, and Edith Oliver, writing in The New Yorker, called it "a masterpiece."

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