Another man in the street
Phillips, Caryl2025
Book
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. 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. Another Man in the Street is 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.
Main title:
Another man in the street / Caryl Phillips.
Author:
Phillips, Caryl, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025.©2025.
Collation:
223 pages ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9781526678638 (hardback)9781526679918 (ebook)9781526679925 (ePDF)
Dewey class:
823.914F
Language:
English
Subject:
Journalists -- FictionImmigrants -- FictionWest Indians -- England -- FictionBlack people -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century -- FictionBelonging (Social psychology) -- FictionIdentity (Psychology) -- FictionLondon (England) -- FictionGreat Britain -- History -- 20th century -- FictionPsychological fiction
BRN:
2291338