Another Man in the Street

Beschreibung

The powerful and evocative story of a young West Indian man's search for home in 1960s London - by the multi-award-winning author dubbed 'one of the literary giants of our time' (New York Times)<BR><BR>**A Guardian book to look forward to in 2025**<BR><BR>'A masterful stylist writing at the top of his powers' Anthony Joseph<BR>'An engrossing, artfully constructed chronicle of lives tragically unfulfilled' Mail on Sunday<BR>'A remarkable achievement' Washington Post<BR>'A moving, accomplished study of the vulnerabilities carried and concealed by human beings on their journeys throughout the world' Financial Times<BR>____________________________________________<BR><BR>In the early Sixties, Victor 'Lucky' Johnson arrives in London from St Kitts, with dreams of becoming a journalist.

Lucky soon finds work first at an Irish pub in Notting Hill - then as a rent collector for an unscrupulous slum landlord Peter Feldman.<BR><BR>Shadowing Lucky from his early struggles in London to the present day, Caryl Phillips paints a striking portrait of a flawed but vividly alive man grappling with the lifelong disillusionments of exile - and the uniquely complicated identity of the Windrush generation.<BR><BR>Another Man in the Street is an unforgettable story of loss, displacement, belonging, and the triumph of Black resilience - epic in scope and yet profoundly intimate; and a radical and timely portrait of immigrant London.<BR>___________________________________________________<BR>Praise for Caryl Phillips<BR>'One of Britain's pre-eminent writers' Guardian<BR>'One of the literary giants of our time' New York Times<BR>'Phillips is a linguistic and cultural virtuoso' The Times

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