Uncut Diamonds

by Hamand, Maggie

• ISBN13: 9781904559030
• ISBN10: 1904559034
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-15
• Publisher: Arcadia Books Ltd

Summary

"These vibrant, original stories showcase the huge diversity of new writing talent in contemporary London. They include an incident in a women's prison; a spiritual experience in a motorway service station; the thoughts of an immigrant cleaning houses; a child's eye view of growing up in sixties Britain, and a lyrical West Indian love story."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 7
The races	p. 9
Lady of the dance	p. 27
The angry tower	p. 43
The blue man	p. 59
The Pink House	p. 65
Marta and Jesica go cleaning	p. 83
The Fry-up	p. 105
Harold Wilson at coombe lane	p. 127
An uncut diamond	p. 143
The mating game	p. 155
Lost in one's thoughts	p. 161
Emine's fight	p. 171
Running hot	p. 187
Like a road	p. 197
The man who lived on the train	p. 209
The Iranian-American peanut butter goat cheese wrap	p. 221
Maddox	p. 235
Getting away from mama	p. 251
Paradise wharf	p. 261
About the Authors	p. 268
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