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Bageye at the Wheel
- A 1970s Childhood in Suburbia
Engelsk Paperback
Bageye at the Wheel
- A 1970s Childhood in Suburbia
Engelsk Paperback

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A powerful prescient memoir of life in 1970s Britain for a child of Windrush generation parents.

''This book is a classic'' Sunday Telegraph


To his fellow West Indians who assemble every weekend for the all-night poker game at Mrs Knight''s, he is always known as Bageye. There aren''t very many black men in Luton in 1972 and most of them gather there: Summer Wear, Pioneer, Anxious, Tidy Boots - each has his nickname. Bageye already finds it a struggle to feed his family on his wage from Vauxhall Motors, but now his wife Blossom has set her heart on her sons going to private school and she will not settle for anything less.

This is the story of a father seen through the eyes of his ten-year-old son. It’s a wry and gentle comedy about unfulfilling day jobs and late night poker games, of illegal mini-cabs and small-scale drug-dealing.
And it is also about a family struggling to belong in post-Windrush Britain and growing up in a vanished world of 1970s suburbia.

LOOK OUT FOR COLIN GRANT''S NEW BOOK: Homecoming - the first oral history of the Windrush generation

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9780099552390
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0099552396
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
4 apr 2013
Længde:
19mm
Bredde:
130mm
Højde:
198mm
Forlag:
Vintage Publishing
Oplagsdato:
4 apr 2013
Forfatter(e):
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