Gents
Subtitle: a novel
By: Warwick Collins
Publisher: Friday Fiction
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781905548767; 9781905548774
Subjects: West Indians; Fiction; Gay men; Sexual behavior
Description: Ezekial Murphy, a West Indian immigrant, takes up a new job as an attendant at a large London lavatory. The supervisor, Josiah Reynolds, and Jason, a third West Indian, explain that their main problem is the casual sex which takes place in the cubicles. Under pressure from the council authorities to reduce such behaviour, they expect Ez to help them in 'cleaning out the swamp'. Each of the protagonists brings his own moral assumptions to the question. Ez, a devout Adventist, is shocked by such revelations. Jason, a Rastafarian, believes that this kind of sex occurs because 'Whitey' is inherently corrupt. Reynolds, who takes more pragmatic view, is concerned to prevent further illicit encounters in case the council attempts to close the establishment down.
Notes: Originally published: London: Marion Boyars, 1997.