... suggested in more than one interview. But he has a strong sense of displacement, and this feeling sometimes emerges as a subtle theme in his fiction. He began to write fiction and poetry while he worked as a wireless operator for the Royal Navy Reserve during World War II. When the war ended, he turned to journalism and served as the fiction editor of ... : its successful reliance on Caribbean English as a medium of narration and its treatment of "the new reality of life in Britain for the new immigrants from the non-Western world" (Dickinson). As Sushiela Nasta puts it, in the Moses tri...

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