{"product_id":"9781526679949","title":"Another Man in the Street by Caryl Phillips","description":"The powerful and evocative story of a young West Indian man's search for home in 1960s London - by the multi-award-winning author dubbed 'one of the literary giants of our time' (New York Times)**A Guardian book to look forward to in 2025**`A masterful stylist writing at the top of his powers' Anthony Joseph`An engrossing, artfully constructed chronicle of lives tragically unfulfilled' Mail on Sunday`A remarkable achievement' Washington Post`A moving, accomplished study of the vulnerabilities carried and concealed by human beings on their journeys throughout the world' Financial Times____________________________________________In the early Sixties, Victor `Lucky' Johnson arrives in London from St Kitts, with dreams of becoming a journalist. Lucky soon finds work, first at an Irish pub in Notting Hill - then as a rent collector for unscrupulous slum landlord Peter Feldman.   Shadowing Victor in London from his early struggles to the present day, Caryl Phillips paints a striking portrait of a flawed but vividly alive man grappling with the lifelong disillusionments of exile - and the uniquely complicated identity of the Windrush generation.   ___________________________________________________Praise for Caryl Phillips`One of Britain's pre-eminent writers' Guardian`One of the literary giants of our time' New York Times`Phillips is a linguistic and cultural virtuoso' The Times\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368985080181,"sku":"9781526679949","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781526679949.jpg?v=1763551611","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781526679949","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}