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Chargement... Incomparable World (1996)par S. I. Martin
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A visceral reimagining of 1780s London, showcasing the untold stories of African-American soldiers grappling with their freedom after the American revolution In the years just after the American revolution, London was the unlikely refuge for thousands of black Americans who fought for liberty on the side of the British. Buckram, Georgie and William have earned their freedom and escaped their American oppressors, but on the streets of London, poverty awaits with equal cruelty. Ruthless, chaotic and endlessly evolving, London forces them into a life of crime, and a life on the margins. Their only hope for a better future is to concoct a scheme so daring, it will be a miracle if it pays off. Pulsating with energy and vivid detail, Incomparable World boldly uncovers a long-buried narrative of black Britain. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Warnings for, well, everything really: violence, sex, painful historical truths, and some racial slurs (none gratuitous and only one n-word).
One word spoiler for people who need to know if the ending is happy or sad:
Quotes
(One for Discworld fans) 29 May 1786: "This was William's second spring in London, and already he knew the routine. At the lilacs' last blooming the suburban poor would take their demands to the city-centre streets. Draymen, cabbies, builders, clerks and tailors marched shirtless and cudgel-handed from Shoreditch, Ratcliffe, Dalston and Somers Town. William had witnessed riots before: food riots in Boston and Charlestown, but nothing could have prepared him for the spectacle of English urban disturbance."
Lol: "out-of-the-way villages like Tottenham and Camberwell."
Christianity and slavery: "He didn't like church as a rule, especially a church like St Giles where black people formed a sizeable part of the congregation. It reminded him too much of his plantation life, when an overseer would ride down to the shacks on the Lord's day to read to kneeling slaves from the chapter in Ephesians where it beseeched obedience to 'them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling'."
Right to remain, subtle but ouch: "fight for the right to remain where you're unwanted"
Underclass lives: "falling yet again, from nowhere to nowhere else, plummeting through the banked-up years of failure, strewn with the husks of his ever dwindling selves."
And the missing Samuel Johnson quote would be: "when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." ( )