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The Lonely Londoners
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Author : Sam Selvon
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2014-09-25
The Lonely Londoners written by Sam Selvon and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-25 with Fiction categories.
Both devastating and funny, The Lonely Londoners is an unforgettable account of immigrant experience - and one of the great twentieth-century London novels At Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals from the West Indies step off the boat train, ready to start afresh in 1950s London. There, homesick Moses Aloetta, who has already lived in the city for years, meets Henry 'Sir Galahad' Oliver and shows him the ropes. In this strange, cold and foggy city where the natives can be less than friendly at the sight of a black face, has Galahad met his Waterloo? But the irrepressible newcomer cannot be cast down. He and all the other lonely new Londoners - from shiftless Cap to Tolroy, whose family has descended on him from Jamaica - must try to create a new life for themselves. As pessimistic 'old veteran' Moses watches their attempts, they gradually learn to survive and come to love the heady excitements of London. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Susheila Nasta. 'His Lonely Londoners has acquired a classics status since it appeared in 1956 as the definitive novel about London's West Indians' Financial Times 'The unforgettable picaresque ... a vernacular comedy of pathos' Guardian
The Lonely Londoners
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Author : Sam Selvon
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2024-03-14
The Lonely Londoners written by Sam Selvon and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-14 with Drama categories.
London will do for you for now... And I will do for London. London, 1956. Newly arrived from Trinidad, Henry 'Sir Galahad' Oliver is impatient to start his new life. Carrying just pyjamas and a toothbrush, he bursts through Moses Aloetta's door only to find Moses and his friends already deflated by city life. Will the London fog dampen Galahad's dreams? Or will these Lonely Londoners make a home in a city that sees them as a threat? In the first stage adaptation of Sam Selvon's iconic novel about the Windrush Generation, Roy Williams sweeps us back in time to shine a new light on London, friendship, and what we call home. This edition of The Lonely Londoners is published to coincide with the world premiere at London's Jermyn Street Theatre in February 2024.
The Lonely Londoners
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Author : Samuel Selvon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
The Lonely Londoners written by Samuel Selvon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Alienation (Social psychology) categories.
A novel that follows a group of black, primarily West Indian immigrants as they attempt to build new lives for themselves in postwar London. In dramatizing the tension between the immigrants' fantasies and expectations of a city 'paved with gold, ' and London's cold, gloomy, often hostile reality, the author touches upon themes of alienation and homesickness, as well as resistance and comic defiance. (Adapted from the Bartlett, UCL Faculty of the Built Environment, January 2020)
Sam Selvon The Lonely Londoners
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Author : The Open University
language : en
Publisher: The Open University
Release Date : 2014-01-14
Sam Selvon The Lonely Londoners written by The Open University and has been published by The Open University this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
This 10-hour free course explored the depiction of migration, and of memory as a vital part of the migrant's experience, in The Lonely Londoners.
Moses Ascending
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Author : Sam Selvon
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2008-03-27
Moses Ascending written by Sam Selvon and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-27 with Fiction categories.
Sam Selvon’s Moses Ascending depicts West Indian Immigration in England. Moses, a Trinidadian who has been in England for some years now represents immigrants who come from all corners of the world to seek a better life. Like many immigrants he is hard-working. After years of living in a dingy basement he saves up enough money to buy a house. Moses calls this his dream house in the beginning of the book but later on he realizes that the house is a piece of garbage.
The Housing Lark
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Author : Sam Selvon
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2020-08-06
The Housing Lark written by Sam Selvon and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-06 with Fiction categories.
'Irreverent, spirited ... a seriously funny novel' New York Review of Books Sitting 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
Ways Of Sunlight
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Author : Sam Selvon
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2024-02-01
Ways Of Sunlight written by Sam Selvon and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-01 with Fiction categories.
'A delightful book, a pleasure to read and reflect over afterwards ... for humour, sprightliness and downright exuberance at being alive' Sunday Times 'You could be lonely as hell in the city, then one day you look around you and you realise everybody else is lonely too' This irresistible, bittersweet collection of short stories from the supreme chronicler of West Indian lives in Britain brings together two worlds: Trinidad and London. Here is an illicit love affair on a plantation, gossip and rivalry between village washerwomen, a boy rebelling against his parents' traditions. Here too is life after leaving for England: hustling for work, eking out money for the gas meter in winter, dancing in clubs, discovering romance in a night-time park, experiencing unexpected kindness, dreams and disenchantment.
Moses Migrating
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Author : Samuel Selvon
language : en
Publisher: Three Continents
Release Date : 2009
Moses Migrating written by Samuel Selvon and has been published by Three Continents this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Trinidad and Tobago categories.
It has been more than 25 years since Moses Aloetta became one of the 'Lonely Londoners' in the novel of that name. Now - though an avowed Anglophile - he hankers for Trinidad, for sunshine, Carnival, and rum punch. With characteristic irony and delicacy of touch, Sam Selvon tells the story of Moses' re-encounter with his native land. This edition of the novel includes a new introduction to Selvon's life and work by Susheila Nasta, as well as a preface by 'Moses' that was written in 1992 for the first US edition of the work. This edition of Moses Migrating includes a new introduction to Selvon's life and work by Susheila Nasta, as well as a preface by 'Moses' that was written in 1992 for the first US edition of the work.
The Novels Of Samuel Selvon
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Author : Roydon Salick
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2001-04-30
The Novels Of Samuel Selvon written by Roydon Salick and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-04-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
The author of such works as A Brighter Sun (1952), The Lonely Londoners (1956), and The Plains of Caroni (1970), West Indian novelist Samuel Selvon is attracting growing amounts of scholarly attention. Nonetheless, criticism of his works has largely been imbalanced, with most scholarship focusing primarily on his language. This book corrects that imbalance by placing Selvon's novels within historical, sociological, and ideological contexts. A new interpretation of Selvon's achievement as a novelist, the volume looks, for the first time, at his works in terms of categories of novels--peasant, middle-class, and immigrant. The book demonstrates that each category is different from the others, and that novels within categories are similar. Thus it provides a coherent vision of Selvon's canon. It illustrates, as well, the development of Selvon's philosophy of West Indians as peasant, bourgeois, and immigrant. In doing so, it explores the significance of ethnicity in his works and discusses Selvon's imaginative apotheosis of the Indo-Trinidadian peasant and the diminution of the Afro-Trinidadian immigrant. The volume also studies Selvon's fictional and rhetorical techniques and argues that his works range from Bildungsroman to picaresque to epic to satire.
A Brighter Sun
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Author : Samuel Selvon
language : en
Publisher: Hodder Education
Release Date : 2021-03-25
A Brighter Sun written by Samuel Selvon and has been published by Hodder Education this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-25 with Fiction categories.
There have been many great and enduring works of literature by Caribbean authors over the last century. The Caribbean Contemporary Classics collection celebrates these deep and vibrant stories, overflowing with life and acute observations about society. 'Tiger thought, To my wife, I man when I sleep with she. To bap (father), I man if I drink rum. But to me, I no man yet.' Trinidad is in the turbulent throes of the Second World War, but the war feels quite far away to Tiger - young and inexperienced, he sets out to prove his manhood and independence. With his child-bride Urmilla, shy, bewildered and anxious, with two hundred dollars in cash and a milking cow, he sets out into the wilderness of adulthood. There is no map or directions for him to follow, he must learn for himself and find his own way. Suitable for readers aged 15 and above.