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Big foot / by Joseph Barnes Philips.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barnes Phillips, Joseph, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caregivers.
- Drama.
- Teenagers, Black--Fiction.
- Teenagers, Black.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (54 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- Richmond : Aurora Metro Books, 2017.
- System Details:
- text file rdaft
- Summary:
- With grime music and Guyanese folk stories, Joseph Barnes-Phillip's semi-autobiographical story is a comic, tragic and honest portrayal of becoming a man. The story follows Rayleigh as he negotiates the tensions of growing up and taking responsibility - to his pregnant girlfriend, to his sick mother, to his church, to the multi-cultural community he grew up in and somewhere in the mix to himself. When the euphoric highs of teenage life in south London collide with his mum's terminal illness, all Rayleigh wants to do it watch anime in his pants and eat indomie. Love, life and masculinity meet head-on as Rayleigh tries to find his feet, torn between the new girl in his life and being there for his mum, while trying not to make the same mistakes as his dad.
- ISBN:
- 1-917537-53-0
- 1-912430-00-2
- OCLC:
- 1522007879
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