Mr Loverman: From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (Paperback, 2013)

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Loved, loved, loved it! If you don't yet know her work, you should - she says things about modern Britain that no one else does -- Maggie Gee Guardian Evaristo has a lot going on in this unusual urban romance, but beneath her careful study of race and sexuality is a beautiful love story.

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A ground-breaking exploration of Britain's older Carribean community, from the Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney since the sixties. A flamboyant, wise-cracking local character with a dapper taste in retro suits and a fondness for quoting Shakespeare, Barrington is a husband, father and grandfather - but he is also secretly homosexual and in a relationship with his great childhood friend, Morris.Mr Loverman is a ground-breaking exploration of Britain's older Caribbean community, which explodes cultural myths and fallacies and shows the extent of what can happen when people fear the consequences of being true to themselves.

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PublisherPenguin Books LTD
ISBN-139780241145784
eBay Product ID (ePID)176565994

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Publication Year2013
TopicBooks
Book TitleMr Loverman: from the Booker Prize-Winning Author of Girl, Woman, Other
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
AuthorBernardine Evaristo
FormatPaperback

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Item Height200 mm
Item Weight224 g
Item Width133 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorBernardine Evaristo

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