A barber in this novel attacks a sub-editor for the Guardian after repeatedly losing the Missing Ball Competition, making him distrust newspapers so much that he tears up a winning sweepstake ticket.
A barber in this novel attacks a sub-editor for the Guardian after repeatedly losing the Missing Ball Competition, making him distrust newspapers so much that he tears up a winning sweepstake ticket. Following the death of his dog, a character in this novel who receives exactly three votes every election becomes a preacher and orders people to stone him. After failing the Cambridge Senior School Certificate Examination, Elias becomes an "aristocratic" scavenging (*) cart-driver in this novel, which describes the clownish pyrotechnicist Morgan and the Ramayana-reading mechanic Uncle Bhakcu. Other characters in this novel include a carpenter who tries to make "the thing without a name," Popo, and a poet who writes only one line of his twenty-two year masterpiece, B. Wordsworth. For 10 points, name this novel about the calypso-quoting residents of a slum in Port of Spain, written by V. S. Naipaul.
A barber in this novel attacks a sub-editor for the Guardian after repeatedly losing the Missing Ball Competition, making him distrust newspapers so much that he tears up a winning sweepstake ticket.
Miguel Street