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£16.99
Hardback | 240 pages
216 x 135 | 0g
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 JosephIn 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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