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A day in the life and death
Evening Standard - London; 10/18/2001; NICHOLAS DE JONGH; 336 words
; ... this lawyer's death. His adult daughter, Nehushta, has a premonition he's dead, when she ... impressive Ossie and Diane Parish's versatile Nehushta walked down Brixton High Street and were ... sells words to Death himself, Ossie and Nehushta are caught up in a dreamscape that turns ...
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Parallel Universes and Detonating Words: The Brixton Wonderland of Biyi Bandele's The Street
Journal for the Study of Religion : JSR; 1/1/2006; Cooper, Brenda; 9801 words
; ... Heckler", and Ossie Jones, an immigration lawyer from Nigeria. There is also Ossie's daughter, Nehushta, who was Dada's girlfriend for a time. Another persona of Bandele might be found in a strange ... pastiche of non-sequiturs, as in this conversation between two characters in the book, Dada and Nehushta: They ...
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The quest for the historical gebira
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 10/1/2001; Bowen, Nancy R; 7700 words
; ... gebira. Maacah (1 Kgs 15:2, 10, 13) and Nehushta (2 Kgs 24:8, 12, 15; Jer 13:18; 29:2 ... royal woman except Maacah and possibly Nehushta. As with Bathsheba, I believe the possibility ... identified as Jehoiachin and his mother, Nehushta (2 Kgs 24:8), are seen as sharing a ceremonial ...
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Welcome sorbet of life's gentle richness
Evening Standard - London; 9/7/2006; FIONA MOUNTFORD; 353 words
; ... announces that Ossie Jones, immigration lawyer and father to Nehushta, is dead. In the subsequent 75 minutes, however, he is gloriously ... worth enduring just to witness his tender closing scenes with Nehushta. Geoff Aymer makes his Ossie a good man prone to occasional ...
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Welcome sorbet of life's gentle richness.(Theater review)
The Evening Standard (London, England); 9/7/2006; 356 words
; ... announces that Ossie Jones, immigration lawyer and father to Nehushta, is dead. In the subsequent 75 minutes, however, he is gloriously ... worth enduring just to witness his tender closing scenes with Nehushta. Geoff Aymer makes his Ossie a good man prone to occasional ...
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(theater review)
The Evening Standard (London, England); 10/18/2001; De Jongh, Nicholas; 340 words
; ... this lawyer's death. His adult daughter, Nehushta, has a premonition he's dead, when she ... impressive Ossie and Diane Parish's versatile Nehushta walked down Brixton High Street and were ... sells words to Death himself, Ossie and Nehushta are caught up in a dreamscape that turns ...
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(book review)
World Literature Today; 6/22/2000; Fleming, Kate; 517 words
; ... figures for a local monthly magazine, Care-in-the-Community, and Nehushta, a set designer. And it is through connections to these two ... fantasizes about the local convenience-store clerk; Ossie Jones, Nehushta's father, who reconnects with his daughter after awakening ...
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Theatre: Keeping up with the Joneses
The Independent - London; 10/24/2001; Rhoda Koenig; 474 words
; ... the cultural, criminal and social life of Brixton. Biyi Bandele has freely adapted his novel The Street, weaving Ossie and Nehushta among con men, beggars, drunks and many more. Moving swiftly about the bare stage, they people the worlds of reality and dreams ...
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Book Review: Mixed company for the lonely Londoners Andrea Henry visits two sides of the black metropolis - the threatening estate, and the enchanting street; Society Within by Courttia Newland Abacus, pounds 9.99, 310pp; The Street by Biyi Bandele Picador, pounds 10, 292pp
The Independent - London; 7/31/1999; Andrea Henry; 739 words
; ... storylines which eventually connect. When Nehushta is 13, her father falls into a coma ... other until tragedy strikes again, and Nehushta finds herself alone once more. Meanwhile ... familiar faces on the streets. Eventually, Nehushta's and Dada's paths cross - perfectly ...
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CRITIC'S CHOICE TOP FIVE PLAYS
Evening Standard - London; 9/15/2006; 456 words
; ... lines in Biyi Bandele's uplifting look at south-west London life announces that Ossie Jones, immigration lawyer and father to Nehushta, is dead. In the subsequent 75 minutes, however, he is gloriously alive. He and his daughter wander their home streets, as ...
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