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The Lowlife (Faber Editions): 'Terrific. Propulsive, funny and touching.' - Sebastian Faulks

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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780571393473
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Faber & Faber
  • Publisher Imprint: Faber & Faber
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 256
  • Original Price: GBP 9.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 222 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

Never give up hope before the dogs have crossed the finishing-line.

Harryboy Boas is a lowlife gambler. When he's not at the track, he lives in a Hackney boarding house, reading Zola, eating salt beef, pressing trousers and repressing wartime memories. But when a new family moves into the apartment downstairs, his life starts to unravel and Harryboy soon finds himself sinking into a murky East End underworld where violence, guilt and gangsters are the inevitable result for those who cannot pay their dues.

A celebrated cult classic,
The Lowlife brilliantly evokes post-war East London - dog tracks, sandwich shops, tenements, sex workers, newly arrived West Indians and Jews leaving for Finchley - all seen through the tragicomic eyes of Harryboy, our picaresque rogue hero suffering from 'existential burn-out in the shadow of the Holocaust' (Iain Sinclair) and driven to bet, brag and beg to survive.

'Terrific.' Sebastian Faulks

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