Monday, June 15, 2015

The Lonely Londoners

This is a reflective story about the apparently aimless hard life of poor West Indians struggling to make a living in London in the fifties. It picks a set of hustling characters and tells successive stories about their encounters and experiences, at work and at poor neighborhoods and of sex with white chicks. It features interesting characters like Five, a loud-mouthed weed-smoker, Galagher, strangely feeling warm in winter and cold in summer, Captain, a Nigerian student drop-out who is too lazy for work yet stays fed all the time. Written in regional English prose; was not divided into chapters.


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