Ways of sunlight
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Ways of sunlight
（Penguin modern classics）（Penguin fiction）
Penguin Classics/Penguin, 2024, c1957
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Note
Originally published: MacGibbon and Kee, 1957
Contents of Works
- Johnson and the cascadura
- Down the Main
- Holiday in five rivers
- Cane is bitter
- The village washer
- Wartime activities
- The mango tree
- Gussy and the boss
- A drink of water
- Calypso in London
- Working the transport
- Waiting for Aunty to cough
- Eraser's dilemma
- Brackley and the bed
- If winter comes
- The cricket match
- Obeah in the grove
- Basement lullaby
- My girl and the city
Description and Table of Contents
Description
'A delightful book, a pleasure to read and reflect over afterwards ... for humour, sprightliness and downright exuberance at being alive' Sunday Times
'You could be lonely as hell in the city, then one day you look around you and you realise everybody else is lonely too'
This irresistible, bittersweet collection of short stories from the supreme chronicler of West Indian lives in Britain brings together two worlds: Trinidad and London. Here is an illicit love affair on a plantation, gossip and rivalry between village washerwomen, a boy rebelling against his parents' traditions. Here too is life after leaving for England: hustling for work, eking out money for the gas meter in winter, dancing in clubs, discovering romance in a night-time park, experiencing unexpected kindness, dreams and disenchantment.
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