The Housing Lark

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Synopsis

'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

Book details

Series:
Penguin Modern Classics
Author:
Sam Selvon
ISBN:
9780141992594
Related ISBNs:
9780241441329
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pages:
160
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2020-08-07
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2020
Copyright by:
Sam Selvon 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Literature and Fiction