The Lonely Londoners
$21.51
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
17 August 2006
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141188416 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141188413 |
| Author: | Sam Selvon, Nasta Susheila |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 17 August 2006 |
| Weight: | 116g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 128mm x 12mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Sam Selvon
Sam Selvon was born in San Fernando (Trinidad) in 1923 and worked in his homeland as a wireless operator and reporter. In 1950 he left Trinidad for the UK, where he established himself as a writer with A Brighter Sun (1952). Many other books followed, including his best-known novel, The Lonely Londoners (1956), and its two sequels, Moses Ascending (1975) and Moses Migrating (1983). He moved to Canada in the late 1970s and died in 1994.
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