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...Moorlands Estate in Brixton, south London, where Solomon Wilson, 23, and his friend Nathan Foster grew up. Wilson says he was "no saint" when younger, but he benefited from a happy home life. "I take my hat off to my mum," he says. As he saunters along Brixton's Coldharbour Lane, he's trailed by a posse of local girls and boys who just want to hang...
Wilfred Barclay is an aging, alcoholic English writer who has experienced a Golding-like stroke of good fortune; Coldharbour, his first novel, written just after World War II, became a commercial and critical success and apparently goes on selling as vigorously as Lord of the Flies, Golding's first and most famous novel. "I hit the jackpot," Barclay says. "Someone has to." In addition to fame and fortune, he has also won Rick L. Tucker, a burly young American professor with designs on Barclay's literary remains. Their relationship begins badly. Hearing what he thinks is a badger...
...district of small row houses where 70,000 West Indians live, is rapidly deteriorating into the capital's first true ghetto, a backwater of black alienation and crime. Cecil, 18, a slender youth with a black leather cap, leans against the doorway of the Brixton unemployment office on Coldharbour Lane and says, "I wouldn't work in this country. I'd rather be a crook." A Jamaican who left the island when he was three, Cecil has not held a job since he graduated from school last year. Unable to find anything paying more than...
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