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0099552396 
Paperback Bageye at the Wheel: A 1970s childhood in suburbia
Publication year: 2013
Language: English
Media Paperback
Classification: B/GRA
Publisher: Vintage Books, 2013
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 0099552396 9780099552390
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Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2012
A powerful prescient memoir of life in 1970s Britain for a child of Windrush generation parents. 'This book is a classic' Sunday TelegraphTo 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 there: 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 and she will not settle for anything less.This is the story of a father seen through the eyes of his ten-year-old son. It's a wry and gentle comedy about unfulfilling day jobs and late night poker games, of illegal mini-cabs and small-scale drug-dealing. And it is also about
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