About the Author

Winkler was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1942. His first novel, The Painted Canoe, was published in 1984 to critical acclaim. This was followed by The Lunatic (1987), The Great Yacht Race (1992), Going Home to Teach (1995) and The Duppy (1997). A short story collection, The Annihilation of Fish and Other Stories, was published in 2004 by Macmillan.

Reviews

The Lunatic is a brilliantly written and outrageous Jamaican fable.-- "Sunday Gleaner (Jamaica)"

The Lunatic is odd, i.e., original, beautiful, and insane, truly unlike any other in its comedy of character and idea, landscape and language; a sensibility that jostles the senses. He pulls the rug out from under you and then helps you land.--Benjamin Weissman, author of Headless