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Set in a multi-racial community in contemporary Britain, the street in this book is populated with a series of unique characters, from Mide the bookseller who moonlights as a stand-up comedian, to The Heckler who taunts the sandwich-board preachers outside the tube station.
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Biyi Bandele's third novel, The Street, is a surreal and picaresque trawl through the weird and wonderful streets of Brixton. At the heart of the book are several, loosely interlinked stories featuring larger-than-life characters: the painter Nehusta and her father Ossie Jones, following his awakening from a fifteen-year coma; Dada, a Nigerian journalist, and his cousin, the Heckler, who spends most of his time berating the various sandwich-board preachers gathering outside Brixton tube; and Haifa Kampana, who is so obsessed by the till girl at his local 7-eleven he secretly stalks and photographs her for months on end. According to the unnamed narrator, all of these odd, and very funny characters, are "people reaching out to one another, searching for love". They are also the main focus of Bandele's constantly exhilarating portrayal of Brixton people and places. The Street, like Bandele's earlier The Sympathetic Undertaker and other Dreams, is a witty, quasi- documentary, exercise in the urban surrealism of everyday life, the main effect of which is an endlessly proliferating field of vision ranging from black comedy to metaphysical speculation, sentimental melodrama to the language of dreams and romance. --David Marriott
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‘Full of colour and charm . . . brimming with wit and optimism . . . wonderfully perceptive’ Independent
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0330375385
- ISBN 13 9780330375382
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages280
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. Ossie Jones, a lawyer, is one of the central characters in this 292 page novel. He is set opposite his daughter Nehushta. They are supported in the wings by Abiodun - the Heckler, Mide - the bookseller, and Haifa Kampana - the lustful. All of this set in a racially mixed community of Brixton. Read more about : Apha, His Royal Creepiness, spliff, Duel-with-Death, King's Cross, Ras Joseph, Lagos, Le Shuttle, and Coldharbour Lane. UNillustrated. Cond : Paper wrapper is bright blue, with red and yellow lettering. Front cover graphic involves a very broad street featuring the Ritzy Cinema and 16 people. Corners, edges, and spine are sharp (with one tiny exception). No marks in text block, but remainder mark on bottom edge. No names, creases, tears, stains, nor bumps. Square ! Binding tight ! Collectible ! Quote (p. 134) : " ._._._. and run for his life. For a long while, no one knew where he was or whether he was alive. Then a year later he surfaced in London, Ontario, with his wife Aunt Kemi, who used to be a high class hooker, and whose past was strewn with ._._._. ." Scarce in North America !! Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 005726
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