The housing lark
By: Sam Selvon.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Three Continents Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
Subjects: Trinidad and Tobago -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Battersby, the hero of Selvon's fifth novel, is a West Indian exile in London who encounters both hardships and amusing situations in his search for adequate and reasonably priced shelter. In Housing Lark Selvon explores the plight of the West Indian in the "Mother Country," and the exiles' interactions with English women, the British in general, and each other"--Pub. website.
Notes: "First British edition, MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1965"--T.p. verso.