Another Man in the Street

<p><b>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'' (<i>New York Times</i>)</b><br><b><br>**A <i>Guardian </i>book to look forward to in 2025**<br><br></b><b>‘</b><b>A masterful stylist writing at the top of his powers</b><b>’</b><b> Anthony Joseph</b><br><b>‘An engrossing, artfully constructed chronicle of lives tragically unfulfilled’ <i>Mail on Sunday</i></b><br><b>‘A remarkable achievement’ <i>Washington Post</i><br>‘A moving, accomplished study of the vulnerabilities carried and concealed by human beings on their journeys throughout the world’ <i>Financial Times</i><br>____________________________________________<br></b><br>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.<br><br>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.<br>___________________________________________________<br><b>Praise for Caryl Phillips</b><br><b>‘One of Britain''s pre-eminent writers’ <i>Guardian</i></b><br><b>‘One of the literary giants of our time’ <i>New York Times</i></b><br><b>‘Phillips is a linguistic and cultural virtuoso’ <i>The Times</i> </b></p>