Caryl Phillips introduces Another Man in the Street: A Reading and Conversation
Lecture Theatre 4, Chemistry Building, BS8 1TS
Caryl Phillips introduces Another Man in the Street: A Reading and Conversation
February 10th 2025
5.30 - 6.30pm
https://caribbeanstudies.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/events/
Join us for an exciting evening with Caryl Phillips to discuss his latest novel Another Man in the Street at The University of Bristol as part of the Caribbean Studies Studio.
About Another Man in the Street: In the early Sixties, Victor ‘Lucky’ Johnson arrives in London from St Kitts, with dreams of becoming a journalist. Lucky soon finds work first at an Irish pub in Notting Hill – then as a rent collector for an unscrupulous slum landlord Peter Feldman. Shadowing Lucky from his early struggles in London to the present day, Caryl Phillips paints a striking portrait of a flawed but vividly alive man grappling with the lifelong disillusionments of exile – and the uniquely complicated identity of the Windrush generation. Another Man in the Street is an unforgettable story of loss, displacement, belonging, and the triumph of Black resilience – epic in scope and yet profoundly intimate, and a radical and timely portrait of immigrant London.
