Another Man in the Street
1st Edition
Published on 16. January 2025
240 pages
978-1-5266-7992-5 (ISBN)
Description
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)
**A Guardian book to look forward to in 2025**
'A masterful stylist writing at the top of his powers' Anthony Joseph
'An engrossing, artfully constructed chronicle of lives tragically unfulfilled' Mail on Sunday
'A remarkable achievement' Washington Post
'A moving, accomplished study of the vulnerabilities carried and concealed by human beings on their journeys throughout the world' Financial Times
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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 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.
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Praise for Caryl Phillips
'One of Britain's pre-eminent writers' Guardian
'One of the literary giants of our time' New York Times
'Phillips is a linguistic and cultural virtuoso' The Times
**A Guardian book to look forward to in 2025**
'A masterful stylist writing at the top of his powers' Anthony Joseph
'An engrossing, artfully constructed chronicle of lives tragically unfulfilled' Mail on Sunday
'A remarkable achievement' Washington Post
'A moving, accomplished study of the vulnerabilities carried and concealed by human beings on their journeys throughout the world' Financial Times
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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 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.
___________________________________________________
Praise for Caryl Phillips
'One of Britain's pre-eminent writers' Guardian
'One of the literary giants of our time' New York Times
'Phillips is a linguistic and cultural virtuoso' The Times
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-5266-7992-5 (9781526679925)
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Caryl Phillips is a novelist, playwright and essayist, currently Professor of English at Yale University. Born in St Kitts, he came to Britain at four months old. He was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year in 1992 and was on the 1993 Granta list of Best of Young British Writers. His literary awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a British Council Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the PEN/Open Book Award, and his work has been longlisted and shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
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Content
- Intro
- Praise Page
- Author Bio
- Also By
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- 1 Calling the World
- 2 In the Pub
- 3 Cricket, Lovely Cricket
- 4 Another Man in the Street
- 5 The Boy under the Bridge
- 6 Ruth
- 7 Losing the Living
- 8 The Journey Home
