Published by Penguin Random House, 2010
ISBN 10: 0099539748 ISBN 13: 9780099539742
Language: English
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. Social worker Keith, separated from his wife and their teenage son, is floundering in a world of fraught sexual politics, parental responsibilities and class expectations. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear. 2010. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. Social worker Keith, separated from his wife and their teenage son, is floundering in a world of fraught sexual politics, parental responsibilities and class expectations. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear. 2010. Paperback. . . . .
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Published by Vintage Publishing, GB, 2010
ISBN 10: 0099539748 ISBN 13: 9780099539742
Language: English
Seller: Rarewaves.com UK, London, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: New. Social worker Keith, separated from his wife and their teenage son, is floundering in a world of fraught sexual politics, parental responsibilities and class expectations. He takes refuge from his domestic problems in a long-cherished writing project and a renewed relationship with his aging father, who came to Britain as part of the windrush generation, but for the first time in his life he begins to feel extremely vulnerable as a black man in English society.Meanwhile Annabelle watches the man she married against the wishes of her parents struggle with his grip on reality. Despite their three year estrangement, she realises that they have no choice but to close ranks if they are to protect their son from a world of street gangs and violence.
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Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009
ISBN 10: 0307272567 ISBN 13: 9780307272560
Language: English
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Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009
ISBN 10: 0307272567 ISBN 13: 9780307272560
Language: English
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Published by Vintage Publishing, London, 2010
ISBN 10: 0099539748 ISBN 13: 9780099539742
Language: English
Seller: CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A major novel about the multicultural Britain of today, by 'One of the literary giants of our time' - New York TimesSocial worker Keith, separated from his wife and their teenage son, is floundering in a world of fraught sexual politics, parental responsibilities and class expectations. He takes refuge from his domestic problems in a long-cherished writing project and a renewed relationship with his aging father, who came to Britain as part of the windrush generation, but for the first time in his life he begins to feel extremely vulnerable as a black man in English society.Meanwhile Annabelle watches the man she married against the wishes of her parents struggle with his grip on reality. Despite their three year estrangement, she realises that they have no choice but to close ranks if they are to protect their son from a world of street gangs and violence. Social worker Keith, separated from his wife and their teenage son, is floundering in a world of fraught sexual politics, parental responsibilities and class expectations. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Random House USA Inc, US, 2010
ISBN 10: 030747383X ISBN 13: 9780307473837
Language: English
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Published by Random House USA Inc, New York, 2010
ISBN 10: 030747383X ISBN 13: 9780307473837
Language: English
Seller: CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. From one of our most admired fiction writers: the searing story of breakdown and recovery in the life of one man and of a society moving from one idea of itself to another. Keithborn in England in the early 1960s to immigrant West Indian parents but primarily raised by his white stepmotheris a social worker heading a Race Equality unit in London whose life has come undone. He is separated from his wife of twenty years, kept at arms length by his teenage son, estranged from his father, and accused of harassment by a coworker. And beneath it all, he has a desperate feeling that his workeven in fact his lifeis no longer relevant. Deeply moving in its portrayal of the vagaries of family love and bold in its scrutiny of the personal politics of race, this is Caryl Phillipss most powerful novel yet. From one of our most admired fiction writers: the searing story of breakdown and recovery in the life of one man and of a society moving from one idea of itself to another. Keith—born in England in the early 1960s to immigrant West Indian parents but primarily raised by his white stepmother—is a social worker heading a Race Equality unit in London whose life has come undone. He is separated from his wife of twenty years, kept at arm's length by his teenage son, estranged from his father, and accused of harassment by a coworker. And beneath it all, he has a desperate feeling that his work—even in fact his life—is no longer relevant. Deeply moving in its portrayal of the vagaries of family love and bold in its scrutiny of the personal politics of race, this is Caryl Phillips's most powerful novel yet. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Vintage Publishing Jun 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0099539748 ISBN 13: 9780099539742
Language: English
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Add to basketTaschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Social worker Keith, separated from his wife and their teenage son, is floundering in a world of fraught sexual politics, parental responsibilities and class expectations. He takes refuge from his domestic problems in a long-cherished writing project and a renewed relationship with his aging father, who came to Britain as part of the windrush generation, but for the first time in his life he begins to feel extremely vulnerable as a black man in English society.Meanwhile Annabelle watches the man she married against the wishes of her parents struggle with his grip on reality. Despite their three year estrangement, she realises that they have no choice but to close ranks if they are to protect their son from a world of street gangs and violence.