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Strangers in Another Country

Lawrence Taylor

出版	Independently Published, 2016-02-02
主題	Fiction / Romance / Contemporary
ISBN	16953753359781695375338
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LCQhzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Set in London and Stockholm in the late 1960s, these four stories are driven more by characters than by action. The protagonists face social, economic, and existential problems. David frets about discrimination in the workplace but is rude and vain during a dispute with his girlfriend. Charlie is a poet suffering from the blues and disillusioned with life. By chance, Charlie meets a new male friend who promises to set him up with a date. Binky has romantic notions of women and love from Hollywood movies and some Shakespeare sonnets. Unemployed and only arrived in England a few months, he borrows money to venture on a holiday to breathe life into a half-baked romance for which he has high hopes despite his common sense. Then there is Moby, an outsider struggling to come to grips with himself and others. His faith in black solidarity comes to a test when he runs into a black male American who needs somewhere to pass a few days. The main characters are migrants from the English-speaking Caribbean. Themes include unattainable dreams, loneliness, alienation, disappointment and insufficient black solidarity. There is some humour to alleviate the frustration and pain in these stories. The question is whether this handful of fringe figures can lead a better life in a predominantly white country.