City of spades
By: Colin MacInnes
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Harmondsworth
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780140021431
Subjects: City and town life; Fiction; Immigrants
Description: London, 1957. Victoria Station is awash with boat trains discharging hopeful black immigrants into a cold and alien England. And when Montgomery Pew, an Assistant Welfare Officer in the Colonial Department, meets Johnny Fortune from Lagos, the meeting of minds and races takes a surprising turn.
Notes: Originally published: London : MacGibbon & Kee, 1957.