Bageye at the Wheel

Grant [Colin]

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ISBN 10: 0224091050 ISBN 13: 9780224091053

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 2012

Language: English

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SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (viii), 280pp, black endpapers, title page inscribed "Sue, walk good" and signed by (?) the author, maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket in excellent, unclipped condition. Size: 8.75 x 5.5 Inches.

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Title: Bageye at the Wheel
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
Publication Date: 2012
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0224091050
ISBN 13: 9780224091053
Binding: Maroon Cloth
Edition: First Edition.
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New
Signed: By Author?
Book Type: Biographical

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A brilliant memoir about growing up in one of the very few black families in Luton in the 1970s and a superb portrait of the author's father: the feckless, tyrannical Bageye.

To his fellow West Indians who assemble every weekend for the all-night poker game at Mrs Knight's, he is always known as Bageye. There aren't very many black men in Luton in 1972 and most of them gather at Mrs Knight's -- Summer Wear, Pioneer, Anxious, Tidy Boots -- each has his nickname. Bageye already finds it a struggle to feed his family on his wage from Vauxhall Motors, but now his wife Blossom has set her heart on her sons going to private school.

In this wonderful memoir Colin Grant looks at his father through the eyes of his ten-year-old self. Colin is Bageye's favourite 'pickney', and often his reluctant companion in his latest attempt to placate Blossom with another DIY project, or a little cash. When he acquires a less than roadworthy old car, Bageye sets himself up as an unofficial minicab service, lack of a driving licence notwithstanding. More profitable are his marijuana deals, until the day he mistakenly entrusts Colin with choosing a hiding place for a huge bag of ganja.

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COLIN GRANT is an independent historian and producer of BBC radio. The son of Jamaican emigrants, he lives in Brighton.

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