Miguel StreetA stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say 'Slum!' because he could see no more. But to it's residents this derelict corner of Trinidad's capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else ... Set during World War II and narrated by an unnamed - but precociously observant - neighbourhood boy, Miguel Street is a work of mercurial mood shifts, by turns sweetly melancholy and anarchically funny. It overflows with life on every page. |
Contents
BOGART | 1 |
THE THING WITHOUT A NAME | 8 |
GEORGE AND THE PINK HOUSE | 15 |
HIS CHOSEN CALLING | 24 |
MANMAN | 32 |
B WORDSWORTH | 40 |
THE COWARD | 49 |
THE PYROTECHNICIST | 59 |
THE MATERNAL INSTINCT | 81 |
THE BLUE CART | 90 |
LOVE LOVE LOVE ALONE | 100 |
THE MECHANICAL GENIUS | 115 |
CAUTION | 130 |
UNTIL THE SOLDIERS CAME | 141 |
HAT | 157 |
HOW I LEFT MIGUEL STREET | 170 |
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