Pigeon English
$42.25
- Paperback
104 pages
- Release Date
21 October 2015
Summary
Pigeon English: A Young Detective’s Eye View of London
There was a ruckus at lunch time. It was the best one so far. Nobody knew why they were fighting … You actually thought they were going to kill each other. You wanted them to stop. It wasn’t funny anymore.
Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, Harrison Opoku lives on the ninth floor of a block of flats on a London housing estate. The (second) best runner in the whole of Year 7, Harri races t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474251037 |
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| ISBN-10: | 147425103X |
| Series: | Plays for Young People |
| Author: | Stephen Kelman, Gbolahan Obisesan |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Methuen Drama |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 104 |
| Release Date: | 21 October 2015 |
| Weight: | 113g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 10mm |
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Critics Review
Urgent … intelligently written … and thought-provoking.
Simultaneously accurate and fantastical, this boy’s love letter to the world made me laugh and tremble all the way through * Emma Donoghue, author of “Room”, on the original novel of “Pigeon English” *Pigeon English paints a vivid portrait with honesty, sympathy and wit, of a much neglected milieu, and it addresses urgent social questions. It is horrifying, tender and funny … Brilliant * Daily Telegraph on the original novel of “Pigeon English” *Urgent … intelligently written … and thought-provoking. * Daily Telegraph on “Mad About The Boy” *
About The Author
Stephen Kelman
Gbolahan Obisesan
Gbolahan Obisesan is an award-winning director and playwright who lives in London. His stage play Mad About the Boy, produced by Iron Shoes and developed with the support of the National Theatre Studio, ran at the Edinburgh Festival and was awarded a Fringe First for Best Play.
Stephen Kelman
Stephen Kelman was born in Luton in 1976. After finishing his degree, he worked variously as a warehouse operative, a careworker, and in marketing and local government administration. He decided to pursue his writing seriously in 2005, and has completed several feature screenplays since then. Pigeon English is his first novel.
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