The Housing Lark
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Narrated by:
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Don Gilet
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By:
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Sam Selvon
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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?
©1965 Sam Selvon (P)2021 Penguin AudioCritic reviews
"Irreverent, spirited...a seriously funny novel." (New York Review of Books)
"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)