The housing lark
(Book)
Author
Published
[New York] : Penguin Books, 2020., , ©1965.
Physical Desc
xxx, 125 pages ; 20 cm
Status
Downtown Lansing - 1st Floor-Adult Fiction
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| Location | Call Number | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Downtown Lansing - 1st Floor-Adult Fiction | FIC Selvon | Available |
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Published
[New York] : Penguin Books, 2020., , ©1965.
Format
Book
Language
English
Notes
Citation/References
PW 11/24/2019
Citation/References
Kirkus 10/15/2019
Description
"Set in London in the 1960’s, when the UK encouraged its Commonwealth citizens to emigrate as a result of the post-war labor shortage, The Housing Lark explores the Caribbean migrant experience in the “Mother Country” by following a group of friends as they attempt to buy a home together. Despite encountering a racist and predatory rental market, the friends scheme, often comically, to find a literal and figurative place of their own. Will these motley folks, male and female, Black and Indian, from Trinidad and Jamaica, dreamers, hustlers, and artists, be able to achieve this milestone of upward mobility? Unique and wonderful, comic and serious, cynical and tenderhearted, The Housing Lark poses the question of whether their “lark,” or quixotic idea of finding a home, can ever become a reality." --back cover
Original Version
First published:,London, Great Britain : MacGibbon & Kee, 1965.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Selvon, S. (2020). The housing lark . Penguin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Selvon, Samuel. 2020. The Housing Lark. Penguin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Selvon, Samuel. The Housing Lark Penguin Books, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Selvon, Samuel. The Housing Lark Penguin Books, 2020.
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