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The Housing Lark de Sam Selvon

The Housing Lark: Penguin Modern Classics

Autor Sam Selvon
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 aug 2020
'Irreverent, spirited ... a seriously funny novel'New York Review of Books

Sitting 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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241441329
ISBN-10: 0241441323
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.11 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Penguin Modern Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Sam Selvonwas 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 withA Brighter Sun(1952). Many other books followed, including his best-known novel,The Lonely Londoners(1956), and its two sequels,Moses Ascending(1975) andMoses Migrating(1983). He moved to Canada in the late 1970s and died in 1994.

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A unique and wonderful novel, comic and serious, cynical and tender-hearted ... With its surprisingly happy ending and irreverent, spirited wit,The Housing Larkgoes against the grain of much postcolonial literature ... Funny, serious, innovative, multilingual, musical,The Housing Larkshows how literary expression can create community across race, gender, place, and time
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 Larkis a a fine, and unfairly neglected, companion novel toThe Lonely Londoners
A vibrant comic classic ... perfectly observed
The Housing Larkis both spry and strikingly resonant ... Ultimately, as much as its lovable characters and its caper-strewn quest, what makesThe Housing Larkso special are the music and melodies of Selvon's prose.
Sam Selvon is known forThe Lonely Londoners. But it isThe Housing Larkin which his brilliance truly shines.
Funny, subversive and lyrical ... Selvon's garrulous comically-gifted narrator feels like a friend, spinning surreal yet familiar tales in a late-night drinking den. Yet his stories have a sharp edge. The dark side of the Windrush experience lurks between the laughs and this deeply enjoyable book hides serious literary intent.