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The housing lark
- Title
- The housing lark / Sam Selvon ; foreword by Caryl Phillips ; introduction by Dohra Ahmad.
- Author
- Selvon, Samuel
- Publication
- [New York, New York] : Penguin Books, 2020.
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Details
- Description
- xxx, 125 pages; 20 cm.
- Summary
- "The humorous yet poignant novel of West Indian migrant life in London that adds an iconic voice to the growing Caribbean canon. A Penguin Classic Set in London in the 1960's, when the UK encouraged its Commonwealth citizens to emigrate as a result of the post-war labor shortage, The Housing Lark explores the Caribbean migrant experience in the "Mother Country" by following a group of friends as they attempt to buy a home together. Despite encountering a racist and predatory rental market, the friends scheme, often comically, to find a literal and figurative place of their own. Will these motley folks, male and female, Black and Indian, from Trinidad and Jamaica, dreamers, hustlers, and artists, be able to achieve this milestone of upward mobility? Unique and wonderful, comic and serious, cynical and tenderhearted, The Housing Lark poses the question of whether their "lark," or quixotic idea of finding a home, can ever become a reality. Kittitian-British novelist and playwright Caryl Phillips contributes a foreword, while postcolonial literature scholar Dohra Ahmad provides a contextual introduction"--
- Series Statement
- Penguin classics
- Uniform Title
- Penguin classics.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Humorous fiction.
- Fiction.
- Note
- "First published in Great Britain by MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1965"--Title page verso.
- Call Number
- Sc D 20-328
- ISBN
- 9780143133964
- 0143133969
- LCCN
- 2019040159
- OCLC
- 1098785950
- Author
- Selvon, Samuel, author.
- Title
- The housing lark / Sam Selvon ; foreword by Caryl Phillips ; introduction by Dohra Ahmad.
- Publisher
- [New York, New York] : Penguin Books, 2020.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Penguin classicsPenguin classics.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 20-328