by Warwick Collins · 10/18 · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782264027696
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La Pissotière is a novel by British author Warwick Collins, published in 1999. The story follows three Jamaican immigrants working as cleaning staff in a public restroom in central London. The place is mainly frequented by homosexuals, making it a very active meeting point. The novel explores themes of racism and prejudice in a humorous and unconventional way.
Warwick Collins was a British novelist, screenwriter, yacht designer, and evolutionary theorist. Collins was born in Johannesburg to English-speaking parents. His father, Robin Collins, was a novelist who wrote under the nom-de-plume Robin Cranford. Robin Collins's novels were written from a liberal perspective and one of them, My City Fears Tomorrow, was banned by the South African apartheid regime. When Collins was eleven, his family moved to England, and Collins entered The King's School, Canterbury. He continued his education at the University of Sussex, where he read Biology. He lived for many years in the Hampshire town of Lymington where he set two of his novels.
