The Housing Lark by Sam Selvon Paperback Book 9780241441329

Irreverent spirited a seriously funny novel New York Review of BooksSitting in his cramped basement room in Brixton Battersby dreams of money women a Tbone steak and a place to call his own So he and a group of friends decide to save up and buy a house together But amid grasping landlords the temptations of spending money and the lessthanwelcoming attitude of the Mother Country can this motley group of hustlers and schemers Trinidadians and Jamaicans men and women make their dreams a reality Selvons meticulously observed narratives of displaced Londoners lives created a template for how to write about migrant and postmigrant London for countless writers who have followed in his wake including Hanif Kureishi and Zadie Smith Caryl Phillips