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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: housing lark
  name:
    name part: Selvon, Samuel
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: novel
  genre: Fiction.
  genre: Humorous fiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxx, 125 pages ; 20 cm.
  abstract: "The humorous yet poignant novel of West Indian migrant life in London that adds an iconic voice to the growing Caribbean canon. A Penguin Classic Set in London in the 1960's, when the UK encouraged its Commonwealth citizens to emigrate as a result of the post-war labor shortage, The Housing Lark explores the Caribbean migrant experience in the "Mother Country" by following a group of friends as they attempt to buy a home together. Despite encountering a racist and predatory rental market, the friends scheme, often comically, to find a literal and figurative place of their own. Will these motley folks, male and female, Black and Indian, from Trinidad and Jamaica, dreamers, hustlers, and artists, be able to achieve this milestone of upward mobility? Unique and wonderful, comic and serious, cynical and tenderhearted, The Housing Lark poses the question of whether their "lark," or quixotic idea of finding a home, can ever become a reality. Kittitian-British novelist and playwright Caryl Phillips contributes a foreword, while postcolonial literature scholar Dohra Ahmad provides a contextual introduction"--
  note: Sam Selvon ; foreword by Caryl Phillips ; introduction by Dohra Ahmad.
  note: "First published in Great Britain by MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1965"--Title page verso.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk-en
    geographic code: nwtr---
  subject:
    topic: Immigrants
    geographic: England
    geographic: London
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: Trinidad and Tobago
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: House buying
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: Trinidad and Tobago
  classification: PR9272.9.S4 H68 2020
  classification: 813
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Penguin classics
  identifier: 9780143133964
  identifier: 0143133969
  identifier: 9780525505747
  identifier: 2019040159
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190906
    record change date: 20250318222058.0
    record identifier: in00004156898
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng