Pursuing The Dream
Paperback 98 pages English Sep 30, 2020
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'Pursuing the Dream' is a biopic that speaks of a specific journey by sea from the Caribbean to Britain during the early 1960s, and at a period when peoples from the various colonised English-speaking West Indian islands were being invited to join the British workforce in re-building of the country following destructions that resulted from World War 2.The specific request resulted in large numbers of mostly disadvantaged young West Indians grasping the once in a life-time opportunity of a being enabled to obtain lucrative earnings in return for services rendered.Set on a backdrop of historical and biographical factors, the story offers a window into the occurrences, encounters, experiences and interpersonal relationships that evolved within a specific community that was developed in the closed environment of a ship, during an eventful three-week crossing of the Atlantic by individuals with the collective dream of a better life.
- Author:
- Jean Bovell
- Publisher:
- Dolman Scott
- Publication Date:
- Sep 30, 2020
- Number of pages:
- 98 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 191141299X
- ISBN-13:
- 9781911412991