Kinsfolk
D.A.N. Jones, 12 July 1990
A Sort of Clowning: Life and Times, 1940-59
by Richard Hoggart.
Chatto, 225 pp., £14.95, June 1990,0 7011 3607 3 Show More
by Richard Hoggart.
Chatto, 225 pp., £14.95, June 1990,
Tilting at Don Quixote
by Nicholas Wollaston.
Deutsch, 314 pp., £14.95, June 1990,0 233 98551 4 Show More
by Nicholas Wollaston.
Deutsch, 314 pp., £14.95, June 1990,
Finger Lickin’ Good: A Kentucky Childhood
by Paul Levy.
Chatto, 202 pp., £13.95, May 1990,0 7011 3521 2 Show More
by Paul Levy.
Chatto, 202 pp., £13.95, May 1990,
How Many Miles to Babylon?
by Adewale Maja-Pearce.
Heinemann, 154 pp., £13.95, June 1990,0 434 44172 4 Show More
by Adewale Maja-Pearce.
Heinemann, 154 pp., £13.95, June 1990,
“... an outsider, a fish out of water, an oddball. All four of these books tend to the latter sort. Adewale Maja-Pearce has strong grounds for taking this line: he is an English-born novelist, the son of a Nigerian father and a Scottish mother. In How many miles to Babylon? he tells us that he came home from his London school complaining that the other ... ”
