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Set against a backdrop of racism, riots and police harassment, GABRIEL'S LADDER tells the story of black people living on the front line in London in the late 1980s and 1990s. Gabriel Wills, a twenty-something drifter, returns to London to investigate the death of his mother two decades earlier. His experiences in the world of black politics and activism are juxtaposed with her story told in flashbacks, the lives of a previous generation brought into the London of today.
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Set against a backdrop of racism, this book tells the story of black people living in London in the 1980s and 1990s. Gabriel returns to London to investigate the death of his mother two decades earlier. His experiences in black politics and activism are juxtaposed with her story told in flashbacks.
About the Author:
Samuel Johnson is in his early thirties. He emigrated to South Africa, where he continues to write, after the collapse of the Apartheid regime. He is at present working on a screenplay for Granada TV. This is his first novel.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 014025627X
- ISBN 13 9780140256277
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages336
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