The Games Were Coming

The Games Were Coming
Anthony, Michael
London : Deutsch, 1963
223 p. ; 19 cm

Anthony’s first novel, The Games Were Coming, is set in Trinidad (San Fernando) during the time of the Southern Games. The novel follows the uncertain course of the yet unconsummated love affair of the two young protagonists, Leon and Sylvia. Leon’s fixation with winning the bicycle race and the intense training he endures under his father’s tutelage leaves Sylvia lonely and feeling unloved. Momentarily beguiled by her married Indian employer’s amorous advances, Sylvia becomes pregnant. Her hope is that Leon’s offer to marry her if he wins the race is serious and that he will accept the child as his. Narrated in a simple, realist, concrete style, the novel renders the sense of immediacy that governs the characters’ lives and the contingencies that they cannot control. This first novel marks the direction Anthony’s fiction would take in its representation of the lives of ordinary Trinidadians, in their language and their behavior.

H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago Library
Daley Library - Special Collections/3rd floor (non-circ.)
PR9272.9.A5 G3 1963

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