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The Housing Lark
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‘Irreverent, spirited … a seriously funny novel’ New York Review of BooksSitting in his cramped basement room in Brixton, Battersby dreams of money, women, a T-bone steak – and a place to call his own. So he and a group of friends decide to save up and buy a house together. But amid grasping landlords, the temptations of spending money and the less-than-welcoming attitude of the Mother Country, can this motley group of hustlers and schemers, Trinidadians and Jamaicans, men and women make their dreams a reality? ‘Selvon’s meticulously observed narratives of displaced Londoners’ lives created a template for how to write about migrant, and postmigrant, London for countless writers who have followed in his wake, including Hanif Kureishi and Zadie Smith’ Caryl Phillips
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| Weight | 0.114 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 144 |
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| Year Published | 2020-8-6 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0241441323 |
| About The Author | Sam Selvon was born in San Fernando (Trinidad) in 1923 and worked in his homeland as a wireless operator and reporter. In 1950 he left Trinidad for the UK, where he established himself as a writer with A Brighter Sun (1952). Many other books followed, including his best-known novel, The Lonely Londoners (1956), and its two sequels, Moses Ascending (1975) and Moses Migrating (1983). He moved to Canada in the late 1970s and died in 1994. |
A unique and wonderful novel, comic and serious, cynical and tender-hearted … With its surprisingly happy ending and irreverent, spirited wit, The Housing Lark goes against the grain of much postcolonial literature … Funny, serious, innovative, multilingual, musical, The Housing Lark shows how literary expression can create community across race, gender, place, and time |
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| Other text | Selvon's meticulously observed narratives of displaced Londoners' lives created a template for how to write about migrant, and postmigrant, London for countless writers who have followed in his wake, including Hanif Kureishi and Zadie Smith … The Housing Lark is a a fine, and unfairly neglected, companion novel to The Lonely Londoners |
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