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02215aam a22003498i 4500 001 4C11C63A604111EAB684363197128E48 003 SILO 005 20200307010010 008 190906r20201965nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2019040159 020 $a 0143133969 020 $a 9780143133964 040 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a nwtr--- 050 00 $a PR9272.9.S4 $b H68 2020 082 00 $a 813 $2 23 100 1 $a Selvon, Sam, $e author. 245 14 $a The housing lark / $c Sam Selvon ; foreword by Caryl Phillips ; introduction by Dohra Ahmad. 263 $a 2001. 264 1 $a [New York] : $b Penguin Books, $c 2020. 300 $a xxx, 125 pages ; $c 20 cm. 490 1 $a Penguin Classics. 520 $a "The humorous yet poignant novel of West Indian migrant life in London that adds an iconic voice to the growing Caribbean canon. A Penguin Classic 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. Kittitian-British novelist and playwright Caryl Phillips contributes a foreword, while postcolonial literature scholar Dohra Ahmad provides a contextual introduction"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Immigrants $z London $z London $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Trinidad and Tobago $v Fiction. 650 0 $a House buying $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Humorous fiction. $2 lcgft. 830 0 $a Penguin classics. 941 $a 1 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20200307010256.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4C11C63A604111EAB684363197128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search