Black Lightning Elsa Morante with an excerpt from his

with an excerpt from his latest work The Dark Side of Love

Goldsmiths University of 
London

Few poets writing today can move so effortlessly between childishness and childlike seriousness

nothing else gives the same weight and meaning to this transient life

Black Lightning Elsa Morante with an excerpt from hisPart of Peepal Trees Caribbean Modern Classics series, Black Lightning is the third and final novel by Roger Mais, originally published in 1955, the year of his death. Set in the Jamaican countryside, it follows the story of Jack, a sculptor and blacksmith who idolises the biblical Samson as a figure of mans independence. Setting out to carve a tribute to Samson in mahogany, Jack is soon beset by the break up of hismarriage, and a lightning strike