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Vauxhall
Author(s): Gabriel Gbadamosi (Author)
- Publisher: Telegram Books
- Publication Date: 6 May 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 304 pages
- ISBN-10: 1846591465
- ISBN-13: 9781846591464
Book Description
This incident marks the beginning of a period in which Michael s life threatens to unravel. From his sister s taunts to a series of house fires, police harassment, his parents crumbling marriage and the realisation that the council intends to clear out the slum he calls home, he learns to navigate his way through an array of obstacles, big and small.
An extraordinary debut novel, Vauxhall tells a warm and hopeful story of a young boy and the city that surrounds him.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘Only a poet could have written
Vauxhall – clean, swift and with flashes of lightning’ Bonnie Greer‘A tenderly observed, fascinating portrait of a childhood in South London’
Blake Morrison‘Gbadamosi is an exceptional writer of Nigerian/Irish heritage, who describes with poetic rhythm a child s awakening in a violent, confusing London. Told in a series of vivid and often comical vignettes…This is a powerful novel about human resilience.’
Imogen Lycett Green, Daily Mail‘
Vauxhall is an affecting work, that shines a light on the multi-shaded, multi-ethnic London we have come to know. – In pages of vivid prose, Gbadamosi conjures Vauxhall’s cultural pasticcio of Jamaicans, Africans, Irish and Guyanese. – Like B.S. Johnson before him, Gbadamosi puts the most humdrum if revealing of autobiographical details into the writing. Memories of listening to Yoruba-style dance-floor music and of eating Ambrosia cream custard out of tins intrude seamlessly. Vauxhall is a book of rare poetic insight and humour that absorbs from start to finish.’ —Ian Thomson, The SpectatorOnly a poet could have written
Vauxhall – clean, swift and with flashes of lightning’ Bonnie Greer‘A tenderly observed, fascinating portrait of a childhood in South London’
Blake Morrison‘Gbadamosi is an exceptional writer of Nigerian/Irish heritage, who describes with poetic rhythm a child s awakening in a violent, confusing London. Told in a series of vivid and often comical vignettes…This is a powerful novel about human resilience.’ —
Imogen Lycett Green, Daily Mail Vauxhall is an affecting work, that shines a light on the multi-shaded, multi-ethnic London we have come to know. – In pages of vivid prose, Gbadamosi conjures Vauxhall’s cultural pasticcio of Jamaicans, Africans, Irish and Guyanese. – Like B.S. Johnson before him, Gbadamosi puts the most humdrum if revealing of autobiographical details into the writing. Memories of listening to Yoruba-style dance-floor music and of eating Ambrosia cream custard out of tins intrude seamlessly. Vauxhall is a book of rare poetic insight and humour that absorbs from start to finish.’ Ian Thomson, The Spectator —Ian Thomson, The Spectator
