Bageye at the Wheel

Grant [Colin]

ISBN 10: 0224091050 / ISBN 13: 9780224091053

Edité par Jonathan Cape, London, 2012

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SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (viii), 280pp, black endpapers, title page inscribed "Sue, walk good" and signed by (?) the author, maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket in excellent, unclipped condition. Size: 8.75 x 5.5 Inches.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Bageye at the Wheel
• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape, London
• Date de parution: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0224091050
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780224091053
• Reliure: Maroon Cloth
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: As New
• État de la jaquette: As New
• Signé: By Author?
• Type de livre: Biographical

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Synopsis

To his fellow West Indians who assemble every weekend for the all-night poker game at Mrs Knight's, he is always known as Bageye. There aren't very many black men in Luton in 1972 and most of them gather at Mrs Knight's - Summer Wear, Pioneer, Anxious, Tidy Boots - each has his nickname. Bageye already finds it a struggle to feed his family on his wage from Vauxhall Motors, but now his wife Blossom has set her heart on her sons going to private school.

In this wonderful memoir Colin Grant looks at his father through the eyes of his ten-year-old self. Colin is Bageye's favourite 'pickney', and often his reluctant companion in his latest attempt to placate Blossom with another DIY project, or a little cash. When he acquires a less than roadworthy old car, Bageye sets himself up as an unofficial minicab service, lack of a driving licence notwithstanding. More profitable are his marijuana deals, until the day he mistakenly entrusts Colin with choosing a hiding place for a huge bag of ganja...

À propos de l?auteur

Colin Grant is a historian and author of four highly praised books: Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey (2008), I and I: The Natural Mystics Marley, Tosh and Wailer (2011), Bageye at the Wheel (2012), and A Smell of Burning (2016). He is an Associate Fellow in the Centre for Caribbean Studies, and teaches creative non-fiction writing, most recently for Arvon and Sierra Nevada College.