Macmillan Caribbean Writers: For Nothing At All

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Wesley was the bright one, the one out of all of his friends who was going to do well. But as the years passed the friends grew apart, forced by circumstances along dark paths of corruption and death, devotion or madness, leaving their dreams in tatters. When Wes graduated with the best results the school had ever seen, he couldn't get a job. It was the boys who left school before him that seemed to do well with their weed, flashy clothes, guns and new cars. Even so, he seemed like the only one with a chance, not trapped by the system. Until Danny Bruck moved in on him.

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Garfield Ellis was born in 1960, the eldest of nine children in Central Village, Jamaica. In his varied career he has worked as a marine engineering officer, as engineering supervisor in property management, as the marketing and placement director of the Jamaica Maritime Institute, and is now the Operations Manager at the Jamaica Observer . His first published collection of short stories, Flaming Hearts , and a later unpublished novel both won the Una Marson award. He has also won the Canute A Brodhurst prize for fiction and the 1990 Heineman/Lifestyle short story competition. For Nothing At All is his second novel for MCW, the first being Such As I Have (2003).