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GentsWarwick Collins
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Gents

160 pagesFirst published 19974 editions
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Ezekial Murphy, a West Indian immigrant, takes up a new job as an attendant at a large London lavatory. The supervisor, Josiah Reynolds, and Jason, a third West Indian, explain that their main problem is the casual sex which takes place in the cubicles. Under pressure from the council authorities to reduce such behaviour, they expect Ez to help them in 'cleaning out the swamp'. Each of the protagonists brings his own moral assumptions to the question. Ez, a devout Adventist, is shocked by such revelations. Jason, a Rastafarian, believes that this kind of sex occurs because 'Whitey' is…

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Editions

4 in Spinefolk
FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
EditionHarperCollins Publishers Limited2016—9780007391783
EditionFriday Fiction20071729781905548767
PaperbackPhoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )20001609780753808276
EditionM. Boyars19971569780714530284
Fiction, lgbtq+, gayGay men, fictionEngland, fictionFiction, general