Another Man in the Street

Caryl Phillips, who "pits himself against any kind of received wisdom" (London Review of Books), gives us...
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Another Man in the Street by Phillips, Caryl

Another Man in the Street

$27.00

Another Man in the Street

$27.00
Author: Caryl Phillips
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Caryl Phillips, who "pits himself against any kind of received wisdom" (London Review of Books), gives us a hypnotic, heartbreaking novel lit by the bright and changing lights of 1960s London.

At the height of the Swinging Sixties, Victor Johnson, a young immigrant from the Caribbean, arrives in London with dreams of becoming a journalist in the "mother country." Instead, he finds work collecting rent for Peter Feldman, a landlord equally kind and unscrupulous, and then falls into a relationship with Peter's lonely secretary, Ruth, herself a migrant from the north of England.

Spanning nearly half a century, and set against the backdrop of a nation that is slowly, reluctantly evolving into a modern, multiracial society, the story unfolds to reveal the truth of both Peter's tragic background and Ruth's agonizing secret, and we witness Victor, out of his depth, adjusting to the painful realities of life in his new country.

Both epic in its sweep and devastatingly intimate in its portrayal of damaged lives caught between two worlds, Caryl Phillips's Another Man in the Street lays bare the traumas that often overtake personal relationships in the wake of societal transformation, and the high price of attempting to reinvent oneself.

Author: Caryl Phillips
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 01/07/2025
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780374613556


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/16/2024
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2024
Booklist 12/01/2024 pg. 115
BookPage 01/01/2025

About the Author
Caryl Phillips is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including A View of the Empire at Sunset, The Lost Child, Color Me English, and Crossing the River. His novel A Distant Shore won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and Dancing in the Dark won the PEN Open Book Award. His other honors include a Lannan Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and Britain's oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York.

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